Having received two Blues Music Award nominations (2006 and 2007), Rich DelGrosso is a perfomer unique in keeping the mandolin alive in the blues. His debut CD, Get Your Nose Outta My Bizness!, remained in the top 15 on the Living Blues radio chart for three months after it was released.

DelGrosso has been a writer/editor for Blues Revue magazine since the very first issue in 1991. His guitar music column, Take It On Home, has been a regular feature for 16 years! He has also written articles for Living Blues, Mandolin Magazine, Frets, Sing Out! and Footsteps. He has published three instruction books on mandolin, his latest, Mandolin Blues: From Memphis to Maxwell Street explores the role of the mandolin in the blues, with info and pictures of some of the key players, from the early string and jug bands to Yank Rachell and Johnny Young. He contributed a chapter in Blues Mandolin Man, the Richard Congress book about Yank Rachell.

DelGrosso received a KBA for his work coordinating and teaching at Augusta Heritage Center’s Blues Week. This program is a model for similar workshops across the country and in the UK. Recently DelGrosso joined the staff of world-renowned mandolinists at the Mandolin Symposium in Santa Cruz, California.