Week 4
Bluegrass Week
Advanced Bluegrass Mandolin
Herschel Sizemore

Born in 1935, Herschel Sizemore grew up listening to his mother sing and play guitar to his father’s old time fiddling. At the age of eight, he saw Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys on the Grand Ole Opry. His mother, Rebecca, recalls him exclaiming; "That's what I want to do when I'm grown." Herschel has distinguished himself from his mandolin peers with a close adherence to melody and an incredible clarity of tone which many consider to be a pioneer divergence of style from the established Monroe model. He has played with some of the greatest bands in bluegrass including Jimmy Martin and the Sunny Mountain Boys, Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals and the Bluegrass Cardinals. His original mandolin composition, Rebecca, remains one of the most-recorded and often-played classics in bluegrass music.   www.herschelsizemore.com