David Jay Grisman is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which releases his recordings an
Grisman on stage at the Granada Theater in Dallas, March 2006
Grisman (left) with Bill Keith (banjo) and Tony Rice (guitar) at the 1977 Courville sur Eure Folk festival, Eure-et-Loir, France
The David Grisman Bluegrass Experience performs at DelFest on May 30, 2010
Backstage at the Mandolin Symposium, Aug 2004, with John Paul Jones, David Grisman, Monroe Grisman, Chris Thile, and Mike Marshall
David Anthony Rice was an American bluegrass guitarist and singer. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and acoustic jazz. He was inducted into th
David Grisman
…fusion which developed into "Dawg" music. In the 1970s, Grisman started the David Grisman Quintet with Darol Anger, Joe Carroll, Todd Phillips, and Tony Rice. They released their eponymous first album in 1977 for Kaleidoscope Records and their second, Hot Dawg, in 1979 for Horizon Records, the jazz division…
Rice (right) performing with Peter Rowan at the Kent Stage in Kent, Ohio in 2008