Mipso

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Date/Time:Thursday, 26 Feb 2015 at 8:00 pm
Location:The Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union
Cost:$8 Students / $12 Public
URL:http://www.sub.iastate.edu/index.cfm/197...eated_show
Contact:Student Union Board
Phone:515-294-8081
Channel:Student Union Board
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Americana's jailbreak from sleepy town squares and the scratchier bands of the AM dial has been a welcome development in American music. And the renegade traditionalists of Mipso -- Jacob Sharp on mandolin, Joseph Terrell on guitar, Libby Rodenbough on fiddle, and Wood Robinson on double bass -- are doing their part to take three-part harmony and Appalachian influences into new territory.

The three North Carolina songwriters have wandered off the path blazed by Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson to find a new clearing for their southern string band sound.

In the process, they've kicked up a fuss. IndyWeek heralded the band's role in the reemergence of southern roots music in North Carolina, crediting Mipso with "expanding the vocabulary of common touchstones" for bluegrass.