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Donna and Mike Bond
​Interview

The IBA is happy to present our 7th podcast on bluegrass musicians with deep roots and connections to Idaho.
Imagine living in a quiet neighborhood, early 1980s, in Boise, Idaho, and seeing in front of your neighbor’s house a big bus with “Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys” painted on the side. Well, the “Father of Bluegrass” was touring the West and stopped in at the home Donna and Mike Bond—also bluegrass musicians—for Donna’s famous lasagna!
This is just one of the many stories that Donna and Mike tell Gary Eller in this podcast. Donna and Mike were part of several Idaho based bluegrass bands including Ragged But Right and the nationally touring group Buckhorn Mountain Boys, which included Rue Frisbee (see our 6th podcast featuring Rue). The Bond’s reminiscing about their touring days includes a story of “the ranch visit” near Battle Mountain, Nevada, that will have you laughing.
Mike and Donna have a long involvement with the “Weiser Experience” and provide their perspective both of changes over time at the Oldtime Fiddler’s Festival and of today’s bluegrass. So please, take some time out of your day and listen to this podcast. Then pick up that instrument and play!
Thanks to Gary Eller and Bob Pori for pulling together another great podcast that truly captures bluegrass in Idaho.
Click on the link below and listen to the Bonds.


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Donna and Mike Bond Interview ​

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This interview was produced for the
IDAHO BLUEGRASS ASSOCIATION
in collaboration with
THE IDAHO SONGS PROJECT
and the NATIONAL OLDTIME FIDDLERS'CONTEST AND FESTIVAL
Interview conducted by Gary Eller

​​Credits for the Mike and Donna Bond Interview
"Midnight Rider" by Paul Craft - Performed by "Ragged But Right"
Steve Brown - mandolin and lead vocal
Donna Bond - bass and harmony vocal
Mike Bond - banjo and harmony vocal
Randy Glenn - guitar
Doug Jenkins - fiddle

"Pick Away" by Gladys Flatt and Victor Jordan - Performed by "Ragged But Right"
Donna Bond - bass Mike Bond - banjo
Steve Brown - mandolin
Randy Glenn - guitar
Doug Jenkins - fiddle

"Midnight On The Highway" by Tim O'Brien - Performed by "The Buckhorn Mountain Boys"
From the 2003 CD "Take The Backroad Home" BMB Records, Inc.
Marv Quinton - bass
Mike Bond - banjo Rue Frisbee - fiddle
Al Jackson - guitar

"1952 Vincent Black Lightning" by Richard Thompson - Performed by The Buckhorn Mountain Boys
From the 2004 CD "Live - Warts and All" BMB Records, Inc.
Donna Bond - bass Mike Bond - banjo
Rue Frisbee - fiddle Al Jackson - guitar

Thanks to Sandy and Dennis Cooper of the Bee Tree Folk School for digitalizing the 1981 live recordings of the "Ragged but Right" band at the Lock Stock and Barrel and providing photographs of the National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest.

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PO Box 6074
Boise, ID 83707

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  • Home
    • About
    • Join Us
    • Donate
    • IBA Newsletter
    • Our Logo
  • Articles and Podcasts
    • Podcasts >
      • ​Jeremy Garrett Interview
      • Keith Reed Interview
      • Jason Homey Interview
      • Becky Smith Interview
      • Marv Quinton Interview
      • Rue Frisbee Interview
      • Donna and Mike Bond Interview
      • Honi Deaton Interview
      • Dennis Stokes Interview
      • Gary Eller Interview
    • Articles >
      • Glen Garrett - The Golden Years
      • Sammie Bush - came to Weiser
      • Mark O’Connor - My History at Weiser
      • Barbara Lamb - Fiddler Extraordinaire
      • Charlie Simmons -The Idaho Bluegrass Association from 1975 to 1985
      • Idaho's 19th century Fiddlers
      • Weiser Fiddle Champions ​ 1950s & 1960s
      • ​Byron Berline
      • Dave Frisbee
      • Weiser Fiddle Champions from 1970s and 80s
      • Megan Lynch Chowning
      • Fiddle Champion ​in 1990s and 2000s
      • Tashina and Tristan Clarridge
    • Snap Shot - Videos from IBA members
  • Events
    • Calendar (BCBB)
    • Open Mic
    • Winterfest
    • IBA Concert Series
    • Springfest
    • Virtualgrass
    • Other Bluegrass Events
  • Jam
    • Idaho Jams
    • Jason's Beginner Jam Blog 2021 - 2022
    • Jason's Intermediate Jam Blog 2021 - 2022
    • All of Jason's Songs
    • Old Blogs from Jason >
      • Jason's Beginner Jam Blog 2019 - 2021
      • Jason's Intermediate Jam Blog 2019 - 2021
      • Jason's Beginner Jam Blog 2017 - 2018
      • Jason's Intermediate Jam Blog 2017 - 2018
      • Songs in 2016
  • Camps & Contests
    • Idaho Bluegrass and Banjo Camp
    • Banjo Contest
    • National Oldtime Fiddlers’ Contest
  • Idaho Bands
  • Teachers
  • Classified
  • Links
    • General
    • Learning
    • Specific Instruments