Brush Mountain Band Bios

Brush Mountain Band is a five-piece bluegrass group drawn from Centre and Mifflin counties. Their recipe of banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and upright bass with three-and four-part vocal harmonies is combined to cook up traditional, but catchy, bluegrass and gospel music. Lead vocals are constantly passed around the band. Named for a mountain in central Pennsylvania their music reaches beyond local boundaries, from way down south to New England. They choose to perform live, in the old fashioned way, around two or three large diaphragm microphones. Watching the whole band work around the mics can be like taking a trip back in time. It makes you want to get up and move! The band has been together since the early fall of 2002.

Brush Mountain Band puts its heart into bluegrass standards such as “Rocky Top”, “Orange Blossom Special” and “Cabin in Caroline” and Gospel greats such as “I Saw the Light” and Rhonda Vincent’s “When Angels Sing”

The band is Steve Crawford-Flatpick Guitar and Vocals; Tom Kapinus - fiddle and bass vocals; Kathy Kapinus - Bass, vocals, Bob Kapinus - Banjo, and Paul Dix - vocals and Mandolin.

Paul Dix - Mandolin and Vocals - Paul is a superb mando player and master showman, with a quick wit. Paul discovered bluegrass music in high school and draws his inspiration from the playing of Bill Monroe, Jesse McReynolds, Bobby Osborne, Ricky Skaggs, John Duffey, Sam Bush, and Doyle Lawson. Paul has performed with the Salem Bottom Boys, Sand Spring Band and Maple City Bluegrass. Paul sings baritone, lead, and tenor and makes his home in Penns Valley with his wife Martha and four daughters.

 

Stephen Crawford- Flatpick Guitar and Vocals - Steve began playing bluegrass in 7th grade when he became the bass player for his father's band "The Sounds of Bluegrass". Over the years he has played with The Northeast Extension, the Applebauxeville Five, and the Haycock Mountain Rainbow Chasers, and has performed in dancehalls and honkytonks from Texas to Alaska and everywhere in between. Steve now lives in Mifflin County on the side of Jack's Mountain with his lovely wife and two beautiful daughters.

 

Kathy Kapinus - Bass and Vocals - Kathy has played guitar since her high school days. Kathy was raised in a family that emphasized gospel music and grew up singing and easily harmonizing hymns. Kathy performs for church functions with her husband Bob and helped to found the American old-time and Bluegrass group, Hillsound.

 

 

Bob Kapinus - Banjo, and Bass - Bob started playing music at an early age. He started out with the piano and with the revival of Bluegrass in the seventies he took up the Banjo. Bob learned to play Banjo from the legendary Tommy Flint, who played back-up for Elvis. Bob is also a founding member of Hillsound. Bob lives with his wife Kathy in Penns Valley.

 

 

 

Tom Kapinus - Fiddle and Bass Vocals - Tom has been playing fiddle for a couple of years now. Having started with Old Time and Irish Music, Tom has progressed to Bluegrass, hogging the spotlight with blazing fiddle breaks and solos. Tom was a founding member of Hillsound and has toured with the Barking Spiders. Tom lives in Mifflin County with his wife and two boys.

 

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