1979 Harvey Ledenhauer Bluegrass Mandolin Musician – 1-Page Vintage Article

Description

1979 Harvey Ledenhauer Bluegrass Mandolin Musician – 1-Page Vintage Article
Original, vintage magazine article
Page Size: Approx 8″ x 11″ (21 cm x 28 cm)
Condition: Good
Friends of bluegrass will be sad to
learn of the passing of Harvey
Ledenhauer. Although Harvey was
known most recently for free-lance
mandolin picking with many bands, his
accomplishments date back many years.
He claims to have played bluegrass
music as early as 1925, although he didn’t
call it that. By 1929 he had to give up
performing because he found he could not
support himself in the south playing any
type of music but the current rage, old-
time music, although no one called it that
either. Among his personal possessions,
Harvey left a framed set of ink autographs
of the 1945 Blue Grass Boys. Harvey
had purchased this unique item from a
dealer in Newark for a price which was
said to be in six figures. We understand
that all previous autographs of this type
were in pencil.
Musicians close to Harvey Ledenhauer
tell us that events leading to his tragic
death began at Indian Springs, Maryland,
in the fall of 1977. By that time he was
playing mandolin more than twenty hours
each day. It was on August 26th
at a bluegrass festival near Parkersburg,
West Virginia, that Harvey first played
constantly for a two day period. At
midnight he turned into a rather large
Gibson A-model mandolin with uncharac-
teristic appendages. Although the ap-
pendages are capable of movement,
the coroner pronounced Harvey Leden-
haurer deceased as of August 27, 1978,
because an electroencephalogram of the
large A-model failed to produce brain
waves. Since the cemetery informed us
that it cannot inter a musical instru-
ment with appendages, the family has
decided to accept bids on Harvey’s
remains.
Also on page:
Bluegrass
on the Air
Camrose, Alberta, Canada CFCW radio
790. Bluegrass featured as part of the
regular format and a special bluegrass
show with host R. C. Walden every Sat-
urday at 5:00 P.M. Records are desper-
ately needed. Send to: R. C. Walden,
CFCW Radio, 4872 50 St., Camrose,
Alberta, T4V 1P8, Canada.
Miami, FL – WLRN-FM 91.3. Bluegrass
and Blues 3 to 5 P.M. Saturday. Send
records to: Bluegrass and Blues, c/o
WLRN-FM, 1410 NE 2 Avenue, Miami,
FL 33132.
Roanoke, VA – WJLM-FM 93.5. Bluegrass
with Harold Cook & Dale Allen, Friday
6:00 to 7:00 P.M. Send records to: WJLM
Radio, Box 6099, Roanoke, VA 24017.
Roanoke, VA – VVVVVR-FM 89.1. Blue-
grass with Bill Vernon, Sunday 7 ■ 8 P.M.
Rocky Mount, VA – WYTI 1570 – Blue-
grass Gospel Monday – Friday from 12:00
noon to 1:00 P.M. with Host Bill Vernon.
1:00 to 2:00 P.M. Bluegrass. Send records
to: Bill Vernon, WYTI, Rocky Mount, VA
24151.
St. Charles, IL – WGSB 1480. Country &
Bluegrass from midnight to 6:00 A.M.
with host Bill Blough. Send records to: Bill
Blough, WGSB Radio, 1215 Fern Ave., St.
Charles, IL 60174.
Clarksburg, WV – WKKW-FM, 106.5.
Bluegrass played throughout the day,
every Friday Top 15 Bluegrass Selections
with host Christopher Boyles at 9:05 P.M.
Send records to: Christopher Boyles,
Music Dir., WKKW Radio, Box 2696,
Clarksburg, WV 26301.
College Station, TX – KANM-FM 99.9
mhz. “Brazos Bluegrass” with host David
Manski, every Sunday 12-4 P.M. Send
records to: David Manski, Brazos Blue-
grass KANM Radio, Box 377, College
Station, TX 77840.
Seattle, WA – KRAB-FM, 107.7
Truegrass, alternate Friday 4-6 P.M. with
hosts Thane Mitchell and Bill Scott.
Krabgrass, Saturday 9-12 midnight with
host Dennis Flannigan. Send records to:
KRAB Radio, 1406 Harvard Seattle, WA
98122.
14586-AL-7901-34