Butch Robins

                                 Joseph C "Butch" Robins

For over a half century, Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame member, Butch Robins, has been an avid student and practitioner of banjo music. His beginnings as a teen-ager immersed in traditional Appalachian music led to a career during which he developed  a style enabling him to participate in a wide variety of musical ensembles. As both a sideman and a soloist since the late 1960s, Butch has recorded and produced critically acclaimed material. Most of his creative works are still available online today, either through Amazon, eBay or his Facebook Shop.

Butch has traveled to and performed in Japan, Australia and Europe. As a result of these travels, he assembled some of the world's finest bluegrass musicians into the World International Bluegrass Band in 2007  The band toured Virginia before performing at the IBMA Convention in Nashville, TN and taping a live TV performance for "Song of the Mountains" on PBS.

His autobiography & memoirs, "What I Know 'Bout What I Know" earned strong reviews and a nomination for the IBMA's Printed Media Personality of the Year in 2004.

Several years ago, in cooperation with Radford University, Butch produced a video series entitled "Blue Grass Music, its Origin and Development as a Unique and Creative Art Form." In this 5 part video series, Butch Robins explains the fascinating history of Blue Grass music. This presentation can be viewed through his website or with the following link:
http://mozart.radford.edu/amc/?p=1149

Most of Butch’s creative works are still available online today, either through Amazon, eBay or his Facebook Shop. For further information, please visit Butch’s website @ www.butchrobins.com. Also, please visit, LIKE and share  his Facebook page "Butch Robins" @
https://www.facebook.com/butchrobinsbanjomaster/.

YouTube, Reverbnation and Spotify are also good sources to either see and hear videos or recordings of Butch’s banjo playing.