Mount Nebo Family Bluegrass Band

Our youngest son debuted with the band on Saturday at a fundraising event for Sherlake Cultural Center in Chicago (www.sherlake.org) Sherlake inspires women to develop their talents and spiritual life to the fullest in order to build strong families, workplaces and communities. For more info, or to donate, please visit the website.

We had a great time performing at a wedding reception in Champaign, IL this weekend (and had fun dancing, too). Congrats to the bride and groom, and special thanks for their generous hospitality! In this video, we perform Foggy Mountain Breakdown as the guests enter the hall for a reception.

This is a solo performance of Brown County Breakdown, which was written by Bill Monroe and is named for Brown County, Indiana, where we first learned to play (and also the location of Bill Monroe's Music Park)

This is a remake of the very first video we produced when we launched our band in 2019 - oh my the kids have grown! Features a cameo appearance by "Joy" our favorite little barn-cat.

Happy New Year everyone! In his first video with the band, our youngest son kicks things off on his little banjo (and then proceeds to play some "air banjo") - sorry that thing's so hard to keep in tune! Also includes a cameo appearance by Joanie, the 17-yr-old housecat. Oh what fun!

Merry Christmas everyone! We had fun preparing this song (and our tree) for Christmas as a family. Originally recorded by Bill Monroe in 1951, "Christmas Times a-Coming" was written by Tex Logan.

#shorts Playing the mandolin at Age 4 (while swatting flies). www.mountnebo.net

Practicing at home on a Saturday morning.

In this video, we sing "Amazing Grace" for Bishop-Emeritus Jude Paulraj of the Palayamkottai Diocese in India, and Father Joseph Vargese, Associate Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Carmel, Indiana. At the end of the video, the bishop says a prayer of thanksgiving and gives a blessing.

The weather was perfect and the trees were in full color as we played music for friends at the 2022 St. Agnes Fall Festival in Nashville, IN.

We had fun sampling chili and performing this week for a great audience at the annual Chili Cook-off sponsored by Tabernacle of Praise Church at beautiful Memorial Park in New Castle, Indiana. Thank you to T.O.P. for being such gracious hosts and for the invitation.

We had fun last night performing at West Point Financial Group's annual Pumpkin Fest at Dull's Tree Farm in Boone County, Indiana. It was our fifth year providing entertainment for the event, which includes great food and all the fun family activities Dull's has to offer (www.dullstreefarm.com).

We had a fun performance last night at a special event on Copper Rise Ranch in Henry County, Indiana. Thank you to our hosts for including us and for providing such an excellent dinner! This song is one of our favorites because it is about the "sanctification of work". Any work, no matter how simple, can be an offering to God. And this is how our work becomes a prayer!

The girls sing "This World is Not My Home" on the back porch with their younger brother accompanying them on fiddle. The words of this old-time gospel tune took on new meaning for us during the 2020 pandemic lockdown and in the months following, and quickly became one of our favorite songs to sing as a family. www.mountnebo.net

Just a little video from our family camping trip this week in Door County, Wisconsin.

Here are a few snippets of our pregame performance at the "Men In Black - Priests vs Seminarians Softball Game" at beautiful Kokomo Municipal Stadium. Organized by the Serra Club, the game was a charity event for the Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana Seminarian Fund. For more info, visit www.mountnebo.net

We had a fun morning performing for friends at Rivet Coffee Bar in Westfield, IN. The weather was perfect, and the coffee was fresh and locally roasted. Thank you to all those who came out to see us, and to Rivet for being such great hosts!

The residents played tambourines as we performed "Clinch Mountain Backstep" a little short-handed tonight at The Stratford in Carmel, Indiana. Written by Ralph Stanley in 1958, the "backstep" of the title refers to the 2/4 measure added to the 4/4 bar in the second stanza. Special thanks to The Stratford for their hospitality, they put on quite a party!

We had a nostalgic day performing at our family reunion today in Warren, Indiana. Flint Hill Special was written by Earl Scruggs, and was first recorded by the Foggy Mountain Boys in 1952.

Happy 4th of July! The girls jammed for a bit at their grandparent's house today in celebration of our nation's birthday. Uncle Pen was written by Bill Monroe, and is named for Pendleton Vandiver, his uncle who taught him to play. (Video by Grandpa).

We had a whirlwind-of-a-day in the Windy City yesterday, picking-up and dropping-off our children from various summer camps in two different states, and playing a show at beautiful Cantigny Park in-between. Thank you to Riverside for the invitation and for being such excellent hosts, the weather was absolutely perfect! This was the 6th year for Riverside Folk Fest, which this year also included two phenomenal folk rock family bands (Arbo and Scythian). The event was a scholarship fundraiser for The Riverside Club for Adventure & Imagination, and it brought out the best our culture has to offer. For more info on Riverside and the great community they are building for young families in the Chicago area, visit www.rside.org.

We had a lot of fun performing yesterday evening for the Muncie Light Horse Club at beautiful Prairie Creek Reservoir. In this video, Hannah (still dealing with a cold) teams with her sisters to sing one of their favorites, Blue Ridge Cabin Home, which was written by Louise Certain and Gladys Stacey (recorded by The Foggy Mountain Boys in 1955). Thank you to the Muncie Light Horse Club for their hospitality!

Our eldest daughter (who is also our lead vocalist, banjo player, and band leader) came down with the flu yesterday, and so the twins were forced to step up in her place on short notice. Here they are singing lead on "Wayfaring Stranger". The community event, which celebrated the Feast of the Visitation, was sponsored by Boy Scout Troop 8 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Indianapolis, IN.

We had a great time playing on Ted's front porch again this year for his annual birthday bash. In this video, we play Foggy Mountain Breakdown, which was written by Earl Scruggs in 1949. Happy Birthday Ted!!!

Mount Nebo performs "Home Sweet Home" at a local nursing home on March 23rd, 2022. For more info, please visit www.mountnebo.net