http://bluegrasstoday.com Your independent source of bluegrass news. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:17:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/mike-compton-at-the-towne-crier/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/mike-compton-at-the-towne-crier/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:15:10 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52415 Many know Mike Compton from the Nashville Bluegrass Band and John Hartford String Band, or from duet appearances. Many students have taken his mandolin classes. He IS the acknowledged Monroe-style master. When I learned Mike was appearing solo April 21 at the Towne Crier in Pawling [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/mike-compton-at-the-towne-crier/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/bob-mavian-passes/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/bob-mavian-passes/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:13:43 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=52376 Sad news from Westchester County NY — Dr. Bob Mavian (aka Gibson Case of the Case Brothers) passed away in hospital Saturday, April 20 surrounded by his family. Bob had recently retired from his long career as a vet. He was known to many in the [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/bob-mavian-passes/feed/ 3 http://bluegrasstoday.com/who-are-these-spinney-brothers-anyway/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/who-are-these-spinney-brothers-anyway/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:32:27 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=42956 Just where did Mountain Fever recording artists, leading traditional Canadian bluegrassers and late-night bear hunters The Spinney Brothers come from anyway? 2011 brought these genial Nova Scotians to the attention of traditional bluegrass fans in the USA. Banjoist Rick Spinney makes no bones about it [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/who-are-these-spinney-brothers-anyway/feed/ 1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/farewell-to-the-colonel/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/farewell-to-the-colonel/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 00:40:10 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=41707 I hated to read on Bluegrass Today that the “Colonel,” Everett Lilly, had passed away. Growing up amidst New England bluegrass as I did, we heard a lot about the Lilly Brothers, and I was fortunate enough to see them perform live a few times at [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/farewell-to-the-colonel/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/meet-me-in-yokohama-mama-part-ni/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/meet-me-in-yokohama-mama-part-ni/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:26:06 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=40186 No, that’s not a reference to the Knights Who Say “Ni!” – Ni is Japanese for Deux. When we left our intrepid travelers Kelly Stockwell and Paul Millman of Vermont, they were winging their way to Japan on a business trip for Chroma Technology, hoping [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/meet-me-in-yokohama-mama-part-ni/feed/ 1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/dick-bowden-on-earl-scruggs/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/dick-bowden-on-earl-scruggs/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:15:40 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=40066 I grew up way Downeast in Maine surrounded by a country music loving family and friends. In the early 50s. By the time I started school in 1958 I was hearing the sounds of Flatt & Scruggs, Mac Wiseman, Bill Clifton, The Stanley Brothers, the [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/dick-bowden-on-earl-scruggs/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/meet-me-in-yokohama-mama/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/meet-me-in-yokohama-mama/#comments Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:42:07 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=39957 http://bluegrasstoday.com/meet-me-in-yokohama-mama/feed/ 2 http://bluegrasstoday.com/mike-armistead-poster-boy-for-otm-sho-card/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/mike-armistead-poster-boy-for-otm-sho-card/#comments Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:01:04 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=39540 This week readers of the San Francisco Chronicle can enjoy a great bluegrass-oriented feature written by Sam Whiting. The article prominently features two bluegrass art forms that have joined and prospered at an East Bay neighborhood English pub, the Kensington Circus Pub. Locals just call [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/mike-armistead-poster-boy-for-otm-sho-card/feed/ 0 http://bluegrasstoday.com/hartfords-sunday-night-firebox-bluegrass-series/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/hartfords-sunday-night-firebox-bluegrass-series/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:42:51 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=38074 http://bluegrasstoday.com/hartfords-sunday-night-firebox-bluegrass-series/feed/ 1 http://bluegrasstoday.com/powerful-bill-monroe-remembered-in-boston/ http://bluegrasstoday.com/powerful-bill-monroe-remembered-in-boston/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:48:09 +0000 Dick Bowden http://bluegrasstoday.com/?p=36107 Gabrielle Gray, Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in Owensboro KY, made a fund raising visit to the Northeast, showing a clip of IBMM’s documentary film Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered, in the Boston suburb of Brookline Monday evening Jan. 9 2012. Gabby’s [...]]]> http://bluegrasstoday.com/powerful-bill-monroe-remembered-in-boston/feed/ 0