Sandy Munro owned and operated The Great Divide from 1977 - 2007. His primary focus is acoustic instruments... with a strong interest in Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Celtic music. He will be in the shop two days a week teaching and helping mind the store.
Teaching has been a significant part of The Great Divide's place in the community. In addition to local lessons, Sandy is a long term member of the teaching staff at The RockyGrass Academy and before that, the Telluride Bluegrass Academy. His "Bluegrass, Old-Time, Celtic Music" class has been offered, on and off for the past 20 years at Colorado Mountain College. Sandy has been running the shop and teaching guitar, banjo, mandolin and fiddle as well as performing in Bluegrass, Swing, and Celtic bands since the mid-sixties. Sandy currently plays mandolin/fiddle with the Crowlin Ferlies and sings and plays mandolin/guitar with The Flying Dog Bluegrass Band. Prior to his Great Divide days, Sandy taught physics, math, aviation, and bluegrass at Aspen High School and was a Navy pilot before that. He's originally from Hyattsville, Maryland.... famous for the recording of "The Kitchen Tapes." Sandy has been married to Mary Lynn Munro forever. She's a fine bass player, Celtic piano accompaniest, and glass artist. For some nice stuff, check out her webpage, it's called Crystal Lynn Glassworks.   feel free to email us right here
Paul Buechler joined the team here at the Great Divide two and a half years ago. He's an accomplished guitarist... jazz, rock, and classical, and is generally overqualified for his position. He has a Masters in Music from Yale, and attended Berklee School of Music in Boston. He's also been performing in the Aspen area for a number of years and knows how to make grown-up chords. Paul is also the head of the CD/DVD department, which has become an active part of The Great Divide the last two years. He's been adding a lot of nice titles to our CD selection... so check it out.