About the creator of MandoUniversity...

Brad Laird played mandolin with the bluegrass group Cedar Hill from 1983 until 2010. He presently plays mandolin with another bluegrass band, Pony Express, which he founded while in college in 1979. He also played mandolin and upright bass with the eclectic acoustic group The Incorrigible String Band from 2008-2010. During early 2010 he was touring and playing upright bass with The Mosier Brothers Band.

He has recorded several albums, has been a mandolin, banjo and guitar teacher since 1982 and is an alumni of the Atlanta Mandolin Society Orchestra in which he played mandola and mandocello. He is a songwriter and has composed dozens of bluegrass songs and instrumentals.

Brad began his formal musical training as a French horn player at age 12. He was inducted into the Hall of Honor of the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Brad has filmed over 50 instructional mandolin videos for freemandolinvideos.com.

Brad resides in Rex, Georgia and, in addition to his performing and teaching, is a piano tuner and technician, home brewer, flint knapper, gardener, and ham radio operator.