Nick McLean, left, picks banjo and sings his own composition, “Woe is Me,” about the plight of coal miners in Roslyn. Fiddler Shawn Hughes switched to guitar for the song.
February 20, 2023
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Versatile sound
Badger Mountain Dry Band creates bluegrass out of varied material
GEORGE — Almost anything can be turned into bluegrass, as the Badger Mountain Dry Band demonstrated at the George Community Hall on Saturday. “We play lots of different kinds and styles of music,” said Jim Honeyman, lead vocalist and mandolin player for BMDB. “Basically whatever we want, adapted into bluegrass style and played with bluegrass instruments.” Saturday’s set list covered a pretty broad range of music, all converted, as Honeyman said, run through the filter of mandolin, fiddle, guitar and high vocals (sung from the heart and through the nose, as banjo player Nick McLean said) that defines bluegrass.