Mike Munford
Mike Munford (born March 20, 1958) is an American bluegrass banjoist and instrument setup technician. Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, he began playing at age 15 and became a fixture of the regional Washington, D.C./Baltimore music scene while managing the brick-and-mortar acoustic music specialty shop Baltimore Bluegrass from 1976 to 2000. He gained national prominence after joining the Mark Newton Band and later Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, with whom he recorded two Grammy-nominated albums, Cold Spell (2014) and If You Can't Stand the Heat (2019). Munford was named the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Banjo Player of the Year in 2013.
In the newsletter
- No. 21 Fall 1999