Fred Pike

(October 27, 1932 – March 5, 1997), Guitarist and five-string banjoist Fred Pike born in Rhode Island but soon was going North to Maine . Pike was subjected to music at an extremely early age group. The youngest in a family group of twelve kids. At five, he started playing music around the piano, and four years later on he had been playing stage displays and dances. Their first family music group was known as the Pike Brothers as well as the Pine Hill Ranchers., Playing electric guitar, Pike and his sibling Earl produced this group in 1947 and it lasted ten years. Then teaming up with Randy Hawkins to create a music group called the Nite Hawkes. This group supplied an inspiration for Pike to extend his musical wings and consider in the five-string banjo. After launching some well-known 45 rpm recordings, Pike started concentrating his interest on another group, the Kennebec Valley Guys with Sam Tidwell. It had been Pike’s almost continuous touring with this group that basically helped this genre gain a foothold in Maine., In 1977, Pike arranged Back Porch Bluegrass, which continued to earn that year’s Maine Nation Music Association prize for bluegrass music group. Pike in addition has performed with Don Reno, s Mac Wiseman, Bill Monroe, and other artists such as for example Dick Curless, Gene Hooper, and Jud Strunk. (https://then-and-now.thebluegrassjamboree.com/november-27-1932-march-5-1997-remembering-fred-pike/)