Looking for a band

[3step]

I want so much to find my way into a bluegrass band. I've been to some musician hookup sights and most often I find a few people with a passing interest in bluegrass, or I get an E-mail of suggested ads to contact like 'the black death narcos', or such. -come on, play together, work with your differences-, hmmm.
I've been to jams with my guitar, but not my mandolin yet, mostly because my main interest is songwriting, and jams seem more a place for standards and the familiar, which I'd agree is best suited for that setting, so people can more easily take part. I need that too of course, those roots are my main source of inspiration and learning, and I do want to get out to some jams but as far as finding others looking for a band, music websites seem the best bet to me. Only thing is the lack of bluegrass musicians. does anyone know of any good sites for this. I am in the Toronto, Canada area.

[JPA]

Paul,

Any luck finding anything? I also live in Toronto.

[Willie Poole]

I would suggest that you go to as many jams as you can and listen more than playing and when you hear a picker that sounds like he/she would be able to play what you like then take names and have a closed session get together and teach him/her the songs that you have written...It`s hard to show songs to others when playing a mandolin as they can`t follow the chords that you are playing like they can if you are playing a guitar....It will take a while to do this but the rewards are worth it to have pickers that are all on the same wave length....

I have been putting bands together for over forty years and in the last 8-10 years I have finally found four pickers that all get along great and love what I do and that makes all of us happy....

Good luck in locating some....I wish I knew of a site where you could find some info on how to locate some pickers....Google Bluegrass in Toronto and see if anything comes up....

[JeffD]

Go to as many jams as you can and get heard, so that folks will tap you for joining their band as well.