Country Ramblers

Country Ramblers
General information
Genre (s)	Bluegrass and Country
founding	1969
Current occupation
Urs von Arx	banjo
Tom Matejovsky	guitar
Roland Ambühl	violin
Markus Fritzsche	bass

The band Country Ramblers was founded in 1969 in Zurich ( Switzerland ). The band is one of the pioneers of bluegrass music in Europe.

Career

The Country Ramblers have so far appeared four times at the Openair St. Gallen and in 1985 received the gold record for 25,000 records sold. In addition to their home appearances, the band has had other appearances in Germany , France , Italy , Austria , the Czech Republic and the USA .

When they were invited in 1977 by Pete Kuykendall, editor of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine , to play at a festival in Indian Springs , the band took the opportunity to make further appearances in the United States. During this tour they met Bill Monroe , who spontaneously invited them to perform at his bluegrass festival in Bean Blossom Indiana .

With their 49th anniversary in 2018, the Country Ramblers are the oldest active band in Switzerland to play bluegrass and one of the oldest bluegrass bands in Europe .

Discography

Albums

• 1972 Lonesome Sound
• 1973 Bellevue Square Dance
• 1975 Daybreak
• 1976 Heartbreaker
• 1976 Best Of
• 1978 America
• 1981 Bluegrass Festivals In The Sky
• 1985 15 Golden Years
• 1987 Picking The Line
• 1992 Midnight Flyer

Singles

• 1976 West Virginia Polka
• 1978 Zoge-n-am Bogä
• 1982 It's Joe

successes

• Winner of the Marlboro Festival of Country Music 1981 in Zurich
• Gold record for over 25,000 records sold (1985)
• EBMA Award as European Bluegrass Pioneers 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.music-atlas.com/swiss_artists/country-ramblers.html
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated February 14, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ https://ebma.org/