Board of Trustees
Mary Tyler Doub, Chair; Executive Committee Chair
A lifelong, proactive resident of Baltimore, Maryland, Mary Tyler Doub was one of the Founding Members of the International Bluegrass Music Association in 1985. That same year, she became the Producer of Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival in Ancramdale, NY, and in 1987, founded its Scholarship Fund (now the Grey Fox Scholarship Fund). From 1986 to 1990, she served as Vice President of the International Bluegrass Music Association, and in 1991 became the Chairman of its Board of Directors. In 1997, she was awarded the IBMA Certificate of Merit for her outstanding contributions to bluegrass music. That same year, Mary became Co-producer of the Rhythm and Roots Music Festival in Charlestown, Rhode Island. In 1999 she was elected to serve on the Board of Trustees of the International Bluegrass Music Museum. Also in 1999, she founded Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in Ancramdale, New York, and currently continues to serve as Producer of that popular and prestigious event. She was elected as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the International Bluegrass Music Museum in 2008. Mary lives with her husband, George Doub, an attorney in Maryland, whom she knew at the age of 14 that she would marry. They live with their dog, Bugs, whose perky photograph enlivens one of the festival murals on the 2nd floor of this museum. Mary and George are devoted to their two sons, George III and Robb Tyler, and six grandchildren, all of whom reside in Baltimore.
Katherine (Kitsy) Kuykendall, Vice Chair; ROMP Chair, Executive Committee Vice Chair.
(written in the first person and kept that way for its entertainment value!) I was born June 29, 1938, in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, to William and Giovanna Easton. My father was an officer in the U.S. Army and we traveled all over the world. I attended 13 different schools and probably am better for it. I graduated from Falls Church H. S., Falls Church, Virginia, in 1956. I graduated from Carleton College, Northfield, MN in 1961. After college, I went to work for the Army at the Pentagon until 1964. I was married to James O'Meara in 1963 and had four children with him. I have been married to Peter Kuykendall since 1986 and work for Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine as the Assistant to the Editor. I am a founding member of the International Bluegrass Music Association, having served on the Board of Directors for 6 years, as well as Fan Fest Chairman for 5 years, and on several other committees. I am a founding member of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, presently serving on the Board of Directors as vice-chairman, as well as chairman of ROMP. I enjoy listening to music, volunteering for many different organizations, doing crossword puzzles, and trying to beat Mary Doub at Backgammon.
John Medley, Treasurer; Finance and ROMP Committees
John retired in November 2007 after 46 years as Manager of a prosperous Anheuser-Busch distributorship in Owensboro, Kentucky. He has served his home city of Owensboro as a City Commissioner. He currently serves as a Trustee of this Museum, Co-Chairman of Green River Area Development District, Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation, as a member of the Mayor's Committee on Public Art, as a Board Member of Owensboro Fine Arts Museum and the Owensboro Daviess County Airport Board, and as a Member of the Owensboro Art Guild. He is using his newfound time as a private, retired citizen to become a distinguished visual artist. John has been married to Mary Kiley, originally from Dayton, OH, for 49 years. They have three children: John (and Lynn Jurss) of Thousand Oaks, CA; Lisa (and Alan) Welch of Ellicott City, MD; and Angela (and Doug) Stanton, of St. Louis, MO. They have five grandchildren.
Marian Leighton Levy, Secretary; Artists Advisory Chair, Nominating Committee
Marian Leighton Levy is one of the three Rounder Records founders/owners. She has been involved with the Blues Foundation, the R&B Foundation, as well as a member of Rounder's A&R group, signing many different kinds of music, with bluegrass a major part of the catalogue. A fan of bluegrass music for all of her adult life, going back to the folk revival of the 1960s in Cambridge, Marian is an integral part of Rounder's presence in the bluegrass music world.
Dr. Richard Brown: Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp Associate Director, VOHP Committee
Known as “Richie” to most music friends and family, Dr. Brown has been a practicing dentist in Cambridge, MA, since graduating from Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston. In addition, he is a part-time assistant clinical professor of restorative dentistry at Harvard University’s School of Dental Medicine. Richie has been a bluegrass musician since the early 1960s, when he began to play with several of the famed musicians who gathered around New York City’s Washington Square. He has come to be regarded as one of the leading Monroe-style mandolin players in New England. He currently performs with the Reunion Band. Past credits include stints with the Boston-area Stony Lonesome band in the early 1980s; with Connecticut-based Apple Country in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and with New England legends Bob and Grace French in the late 1960s and mid 1970s. Together with Stan Zdonik and others, Richie and his wife, Dr. Margaret Gerteis (bass player with The Reunion Band), co-founded the Boston Bluegrass Union and began producing bluegrass concerts and organizing picking parties in 1976. BBU's signature annual event, the Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, won the IBMA Festival Event of the Year in 2008. Richie served as vice-president of that organization for over eighteen years. In addition to serving on the IBMM Board, Dr. Brown is Associate Director of the Museum’s Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp. He and Dr. Gerteis have two daughters.
Nancy Cardwell: Membership, ROMP and Artist Advisory Board Committees
Nancy, who grew up in a family bluegrass band in the Missouri Ozarks, performed on her father's live radio show in the 1960s, and at Branson theme parks and for the National Parks Service in the '70s. She later joined the Springfield, MO band, Homegrown, followed by several groups in Branson, The Wildwood Girls (national touring group based in east Tenn.), and Midnight Flight (a Missouri regional Pizza Hut Showdown Band in 1994), among others. She currently performs with The Persimmon Sisters, Billy Smith & Whistlepig, and in a trio with Pam Gadd & Louisa Branscomb, as well as writing some songs. Nancy has served as the Special Projects Director for the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) since 1994, where she writes publications and manages leadership and educational programs. A freelance writer since 1980 for Bluegrass Unlimited, she had a monthly column in Bluegrass Now magazine for several years, and she continues to freelance for music publications. In 2006 Nancy received the Charlie Lamb Award for Country Music Journalism from the International Country Music Conference. She's a 2000 graduate of Leadership Bluegrass and a member of the 2009 class of Leadership Music. Nancy is currently writing a book for Praeger/Greenwood Publishing about Dolly Parton's songwriting and pivitol career albums. Contact: nancyc@ibma.org, nancycardwell@comcast.net
Terry Gold: Membership and Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp Committees
Terry Gold is the co-founder and CEO Gold Systems, a communications software company based in Boulder, Colorado. He moved to Colorado in 1985 and worked as a contract software developer with AT&T Bell Laboratories. He has over twenty years experience in business and software and has served on the Board of advisors for several local technology companies and is a former board member and advisor of the Boulder Technology Incubator. He is an occasional speaker for the University of Colorado Leeds School of business and is a mentor for new entrepreneurs at Boulder's TechStars organization. He was a founding member of the Colorado chapter of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and is a former member of the Young Presidents' Organization. In 2000 he and his co-founder were recognized with the "Esprit Entrepreneur of Distinction" award, and in 2003 Terry was recognized as a finalist at the Rocky Mountain Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Gold Systems was founded in 1991 and named to the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies in 1998. The company has also been named to the Deloitte & Touche Colorado Fast 50 seven times. Terry grew up in Owensboro, Kentucky and graduated from Brescia College with a B.S. in Business Administration. He returns there when he can to visit family and friends and to listen to Bluegrass music.
Larry Harrington: ROMP and Finance Committees
Larry K. Harrington is a native of Owensboro ,KY. He is a graduate of the Vanderbilt University School of Law in Nashville,TN, and received a Master of Laws degree from George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. Mr. Harrington practiced law in Owensboro until his retirement in 2007. He served as City Attorney of the City of Owensboro from 1980-1984. He has served as legal counsel to the IBMM from its inception, having been active in its organization and serving on the initial Board of Directors. He was also active in the IBMA during its formative period and while it was located in Owensboro. He drafted the IBMA Trust Fund, which today has assets of approximately $500,000. Mr. Harrington has had a strong affinity for bluegrass music from a young age. He fondly recalls riding in the back of a pickup truck to attend a Grand Ole Opry performance in 1955. Larry and his wife, Hadley, have three children and five grandchildren.
Gill Holland: VOHP and Finance Committees
Spirit Award nominee for Producer of the Year Gill Holland has worked on over 50 films, including BLUEGRASS JOURNEY, Sundance faves FLOW: For Love of Water, ADVENTURES OF POWER, SPRING FORWARD, LOGGERHEADS, triple winner HURRICANE STREETS, the FOX sit-com GREG THE BUNNY, the Spirit Award winner and first carbon-neutral independent film SWEETLAND, Al Gore's 2008 Reel Current Award winner MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL, and the Emmy-nominated DEAR JESSE. He produced three volumes of cineBLAST! the short film compilations. He is partner at The Group Entertainment, the KY/NYC management/production company. Former lawyer and adjunct professor at NYU Graduate Film School, Gill worked at the French Film Office. He has been on the jury for shorts at Sundance and selection committee for the Academy Awards, Student Division. His record label sonaBLAST! features Kelley McRae, Ben Sollee, The Old Ceremony and Irish star Mark Geary. He, his wife Augusta and three children just opened The Green Building, the greenest building in Louisville, KY: www.TheGreenBuilding.com.
George McCeney: Membership Chair, VOHP Committee
Born in Laurel, Maryland in 1939, George encountered his first exposure to bluegrass music over a Baltimore, Maryland radio station, WBMD- AM, in 1951 where Mac Wiseman had a live show every weekday. "I didn't know it at the time, but my life was never to be the same." In 1958 he helped form one of the first college bluegrass bands at Yale University. Doing the mid 1960's while in graduate school at the University of Maryland, he met Peter Kuykendall who asked him to help start and then write for a bluegrass newsletter which eventually became Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine. Today, he is an active member of The International Bluegrass Music Association and vice-chairman of it’s Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Committee. George McCeney is now serving his second term on the Board of Trustees of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, and heads its Membership Committee.
Jesse McReynolds: VOHP Committee
The legendary Jesse McReynolds, a native of Carfax (near Coeburn), VA grew to manhood with his equally famous brother, Jim, as members of a family steeped in traditional mountain music. The “Jim & Jesse” brother-style harmony was exceptional and set this duo apart in the world of traditional music, now called Bluegrass. Jesse became famous as well for his invention of cross-picking and split-string mandolin playing. Beginning their career with major labels in 1952, they recorded for Capitol, Columbia, Epic, Opryland, CMH, Rounder, and their own, Old Dominion creating many classics still played to this day. Over the 55 year span of their career as a duo, they performed in 49 US states as well as Canada, Mexico, Japan, Europe, The British Isles and Africa. They became members of The Grand Ole Opry in 1964. Numerous honors include IBMA's Hall of Fame, Country Music Hall of Fame's "Walkway of Stars", Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame and Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Hall of Fame. Individually and collectively nominated for many Grammy awards, in 1997, they received our nation's most prestigious honor in the Folk and Traditional Arts: the National Heritage Fellowship Award. Jim McReynolds passed away December 31, 2002, ending the longest active professional brother duet in country music history. Jesse continues to play throughout the world with the Virginia Boys and, more recently, his own enormously talented grandchildren.
Carl Pagter: Nominating Committee Chair, VOHP Committee
Carl received his B.A. from San Jose State University in 1955 and his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley in 1964. He served as an active duty intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy from 1957-61 and in the naval reserve from 1961-1978, retiring as a Commander. After his career in the Navy, Carl became the General Counsel to Kaiser Cement. An old-time clawhammer banjo player since the late 1950's, Carl has been band leader of the nationally touring old-time string band, Country Ham, since 1975. He is also banjoist for the Mt. Diablo String Band. Has recorded 9 LP's and 9 CD's and guested on a number of other recordings. He founded the California Bluegrass Association ("CBA") in 1974 and fostered its growth as it became the world's largest bluegrass association. He was awarded life membership in the CBA in 1987, presented with a Distinguished Achievement Award in 1999 by the International Bluegrass Music Association ("IBMA") "in Recognition of Pioneering Accomplishments" in bluegrass, and given a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Northern California Bluegrass Society ("NCBS") in 2008. Carl is co-author with the late Professor Alan Dundes of U C Berkeley of several books on office folklore. Current board service includes membership as Treasurer of the Bluegrass Music Foundation, Nashville, TN and Chairman Emeritus of the California Bluegrass Association. He co-produces several old-time music festivals and national award-winning events in California. Carl is a member of the California Folklore Society, the American Folklore Society, the California Bar Association, CBA, NCBS and IBMA. He has one living son, Corbin, of Berkeley, CA, a professional photographer and surfer who sings and plays old-time music on guitar, mandolin and fiddle. Carl's wife of over thirty years, Judie, lives on the Pagter horse farm at the eastern foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Stanardsville, VA. She sings, composes and plays autoharp, guitar and bass. Carl resides at the family home in Walnut Creek, CA.
Barry Poss: Artist Advisory Board and Nominating Committees
Barry Poss is former President and Chairman of Sugar Hill Records, a company he founded in 1978. Specializing in roots music (bluegrass, country, gospel, folk, etc.), Sugar Hill has won twelve Grammy awards with an artist roster including Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Nickel Creek, Ricky Skaggs and dozens more in a catalog of several hundred titles. Widely acclaimed for developing a company with a strong label identity, Emmylou Harris regards Sugar Hill as “one of the few seminal independent record labels in America” while Lyle Lovett describes Sugar Hill as a label with an “artist’s vision.” Twenty years after its founding, Mr. Poss sold the company to the Welk Music Group. Mr. Poss is recipient of the Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his accomplishments in music as a record executive, and the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association.
Ronnie Reno: Exhibits, VOHP and Artists Advisory Committees
A lifelong musician and son of Hall of Fame member Don Reno, Ronnie heads the Reno Tradition, an act that encapsulates some of the greatest sounds and moments of traditional bluegrass music. His life in music has seen his wide-ranging accomplishments earn him any number of honors. He created, produced and starred in his own cable TV program, "Reno's Old Time Music Festival," which could be seen in 28 million households and earned a nomination for the prestigious Cable Ace Award for Best Musical Series. Ronnie has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association, and has served on the board of directors of the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY and the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University.
Dr. Peter Salovey: VOHP and Finance Committees
Peter Salovey is the Provost at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he also serves as the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology. He previously held positions as Dean of Yale College and Dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. After completing graduate work at Yale, Peter has been on the faculty there since 1986. He directs a laboratory that conducts research on emotional intelligence and on the effective communication of health information. After growing up in Northern New Jersey, Buffalo, New York, and Los Angeles, California, Peter attended Stanford University in the late 1970s where he first heard bluegrass music on the now defunct radio station, KFAT, from Gilroy, California and at various venues around the Bay Area. He has been pursuing an interest in bluegrass and traditional country music ever since, and for the past twenty years has played bass with a Yale student-faculty band that he co-founded called the Professors of Bluegrass.
Dr. Terry Tyler: Finance and Nominating Committees
For 25 years, the name RDI: Radiology Diagnostic Imaging has stood for excellence in outpatient imaging. Since opening its doors in 1983, RDI has earned a reputation for first-class technology, outstanding service, and a personal touch that always puts the patient first. By anticipating and exceeding the expectations of physicians and patients, RDI has long been recognized as a leading provider of outpatient imaging services for Owensboro and the surrounding area. In June 2008, RDI became a part of OMHS, partnering in the mission to heal the sick and improve the health of our community. The commitment to quality imaging and compassionate care continues. Under Dr. Tyler's guidance, patients and physicians still find professional integrity as well as the personal touch they’ve come to expect in a warm, friendly environment.
Joe Wilson: VOHP and Nominating Committees
Joe Wilson grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Tennessee, where he was profoundly influenced by the traditional music of that region. He is a folklorist and served as the Founder and Executive Director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts from 1976 to 2004. He now serves as Chairman of NCTA, and also manages NCTA's Blue Ridge Music Center. In his career, he has produced forty-two large-scale music festivals in eleven states, twenty-one national tours by musicians and dancers, nine international tours that visited thirty-three nations, and 131 LP and CD audio recordings of various forms of folk music. With Lee Udall, he co-wrote the book Folk Festivals: A Handbook for Organization and Management. He has also been involved in the production of twelve films. In 2001, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded a National Heritage Fellowship to Joe Wilson. This is the highest honor the nation accords artists and workers in the traditional arts. As part of the Library's tribute to Wilson, the Librarian of Congress presented him with a Living Legend award on September 10, 2009. Joe makes his home in Galax, Virginia.
Terry Woodward, Founder; VOHP Chair, Finance, ROMP and Nominating Committees
Terry Woodward, a native of Owensboro, Kentucky was a Founding Member of IBMA and served as the Chairperson the first three years of its existence. He is the Owner/President of Wax Works, Inc, a major video distributor representing all of the major movie studios. He is also the Owner/President of Team Marketing, which is the largest company of sports licensed video product in the nation. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and in 1999 was inducted into its Business College Hall of Fame. He remains very active in his community and industry associations.
Fletcher Bright, Immediate Past Chair; Executive, Finance and VOHP Committees
Fletcher Bright, Chairman of Fletcher Bright Company of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has been an active owner/developer of real estate for the past 55 years. He has been interested in Bluegrass music since his teenage years. Founder/leader of the Dismembered Tennesseans, a Bluegrass band active since the mid 1940s, he has taught fiddle in the USA, Canada, and England. In 2005 he received the Tennessee Governors' Award in the Arts, Folklife Heritage Award. He maintains relentless business and performance schedules, never too busy for promoting, playing, and teaching traditional and bluegrass music. A father of five, Fletcher lives on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga.
