Audio: Ross Holmes interview

As part of 2018’s Daily Dose Day on May 6, we were fortunate to sit down and speak with “Rooster” Ross Holmes for an interview. Ross is a four-year fiddler and mandolin player with Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers.

Ross is a compelling interview and a very engaging guy, so hopefully you’ll enjoy this very much. 

We covered:

• Contest fiddling
• Playing at the Alamo with Phil Collins on Davy Crockett’s fiddle(!)
• First connecting with Bruce
• Learning Bruce’s catalogue
• Being challenged by Bruce
• Improvising with the Noisemakers on stage
• Learning from Bruce and how the Noisemakers changed his playing
• His singing
• Approach to soloing and how the Noisemakers have changed that
• The greatest strength of the Noisemakers
• Current projects
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
• His status as a Noisemaker
• Bruce’s new fiddle player this summer, John Mailander

Here’s a listen to our chat – hope you like it!

  Ross Holmes phone interview
» 37.6 MiB - 839 downloads
for Daily Dose Day 2018

Thanks to Ross for being so accommodating.

Here’s a video of the beautiful “We Fall a Sacrifice”, which Ross mentions early in the interview: