Sandy Rothman

Musician · b. 1946 · Miami, Florida
Best known for Guitar Mandolin Banjo

Sandy Rothman is a Bay Area multi-instrumentalist with a direct line back to the first generation — a Blue Grass Boy briefly in 1964 — who later spent years in the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band and has been a fixture of California bluegrass for half a century.

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  • Born in 1946 in Miami, Florida, he has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area for most of his life.
  • He played briefly in Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1964, as a teenager — the kind of apprenticeship almost nobody still working can claim.
  • He was a member of the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band in the late 1980s, the group that returned Garcia to the bluegrass and old-time material he started on.
  • He has worked widely with Kathy Kallick, Earl Taylor and many others, and plays guitar, mandolin, banjo and Dobro.
  • In this catalog he appears with the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, with Kathy Kallick, with Jesse McReynolds and with Earl Taylor and His Stoney Mountain Boys.

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