ALAN BIBEY (AND GRASSTOWNE)
- Mandolin player from North Carolina.
- 1982, won the mandolin championship at the World’s Fair in Knoxville.
- 1983, played with Wes Golding’s band Sure Fire.
- 1985, formed The New Quicksilver with Terry Baucom, Randy Graham and Jimmy Haley.
- 1990, was a founding member of IIIrd Tyme Out
- 1997, formed BlueRidge with former members of The New Quicksilver (Baucom, Haley & Graham).
- Owns a 1923 Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5 mandolin that was signed by Loar on the same date as the one owned and played by Bill Monroe.
- 2002, released a solo project In the Blue Room
(Sugar Hill).
- 2006, formed Grasstowne with Phil Leadbetter, Steve Gulley and Jason Davis. After several personnel changes, the group became known as Alan Bibey and Grasstowne.
- 2013, released an album of mandolin duets with Wayne Benson called Mandolin Chronicles
(Pinecastle).
- 2020, 2019, won the IBMA Award for Mandolin Player of the Year.
- 2020, won the IBMA Award for Gospel Recording of the Year (for “Gonna Rise and Shine” (Mountain Fever)
- 2023, joined Balsam Range, playing mandolin.
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