Chad Manning: “Road to Columbus”

Peghead Nation fiddle instructor plays the Bill Monroe favorite.

Peghead Nation fiddle instructor Chad Manning plays with the David Grisman Sextet, the David Grisman Bluegrass Experience, and others, and teaches regularly at his San Francisco Bay Area studio, Manning Music. In this video, Chad took a break from filming his lessons in the Peghead Nation studio to play the Bill Monroe favorite “Road to Columbus” (which he also teaches in his Bluegrass Fiddle course) with Peghead Nation’s Scott Nygaard.

To learn to play fiddle tunes like this and more from Chad, enroll in his Bluegrass Fiddle and/or Beginning/Intermediate Fiddle course on Peghead Nation today. And learn theory from Chad in his Theory for Mandolin and Fiddle course on Peghead Nation.

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