Role Guitar player Name Mike Auldridge | Website www.MikeAuldridge.com Years active 1960s–2012 (death) | |
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Born December 30, 1938Washington, D.C. ( 1938-12-30 ) Education University of Maryland, College Park Albums Three Bells, Dobro / Blues and Bluegrass, Tone Poems 3, Scenic Roots, Treasures Untold | ||
Mike auldridge plays till there was you at beard guitars
Mike Auldridge (December 30, 1938 – December 29, 2012) was a Dobro player and a founding member of the bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also worked as a graphic artist.
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- Mike auldridge plays till there was you at beard guitars
- Dobro Summit Josh Graves Mike Auldridge Jerry Douglas
- Biography
- Awards
- References
"Dobro Summit" - Josh Graves, Mike Auldridge, Jerry Douglas
Biography
Auldridge was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the suburban town of Kensington, Maryland. He attended Wheaton High School and, while in his teens, took classes at the Corcoran College of the Arts and Design. Inspired by his uncle, steel guitarist Ellsworth T. Cozzens who had performed with Jimmie Rodgers during the 1920s, Auldridge started playing guitar at the age of 13. His main influence through his early years was Josh Graves who also sold him his first Dobro. A 1967 graduate of The University of Maryland, Auldridge worked as a graphic artist for a commercial art firm in Bethesda, Maryland and then for the now defunct Washington Star-News. He did not start playing music full-time until the Washington Star-News folded in 1981.
Auldridge last played with Darren Beachley and The Legends of the Potomac bluegrass band Past bands include Emerson and Waldron, Cliff Waldron and the New Shades of Grass, Seldom Scene (of which he was a founding member), Chesapeake, The Good Deale Bluegrass Band, and John Starling and Carolina Star (which featured three original members of The Seldom Scene). Mike was also a member of the touring bands of Lyle Lovett and Emmylou Harris.
Auldridge worked with Paul Beard (Beard Guitars) to produce the Beard Mike Auldridge Models of square-neck resophonic guitars (dobro), including an 8-string version.
Just one day prior to his 74th birthday, he died on December 29, 2012, at home under hospice care in Silver Spring, Maryland after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.
Awards
Auldridge won numerous awards including a Grammy, Frets Magazine's "Dobro Player of the Year", the International Bluegrass Music Association's Distinguished Achievement Award and was named a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellow in 2012.