Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking this weekend's 2014 SPBGMA Convention in Nashville.
Author: John Curtis Goad
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 1/21/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Winter Village festival in snowy Ithaca, New York.
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Skipping Rocks – Ken & Brad Kolodner
Although old-time music has recently experienced a surge in popularity, most of the groups who bill themselves as old-time are of the string band variety, with a focus on banjo and fiddle music. An instrument that’s often neglected in the
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The Railsplitters
There’s quite an interesting progressive bluegrass scene in and around the Rocky Mountains these days, thanks in part to Planet Bluegrass and its festivals like Telluride and Rockygrass. One of the most recent bluegrass-tinged bands to emerge from the Colorado
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 1/14/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the BayGrass BlueGrass festival in the Florida Keys.
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Photos, video from Scruggs Center opening
Our Special Bluegrass Correspondent captured some images and video from the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center on January 11.
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Earl Scruggs Center opens in a deluge
Over one thousand fans of the five-string gathered in Shelby, North Carolina on Saturday, January 11, 2014 to experience the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center. Despite pouring rain that moved several events that had been scheduled to take
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The Chronicles of Depression – Alex Hibbitts
Having performed with such acts as Randy Kohrs and the Expedition Show, Alex Hibbitts is no stranger to the bluegrass music scene. Although he has spent most of his bluegrass career as a sideman, and currently can most often be
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 1/7/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at Danny Stewart's Florida Sunshine Bluegrass Festival.
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Coal Miner’s Prayer – J.D. Messer & Sanctified
Hard-driving modern traditional bluegrass is everywhere these days. Songs that fall into this category usually hit on all of the bluegrass standards – heartbreak, moonshine, trains, etc. – but rarely do you ever hear Gospel music with that banjo-fueled, heavy-hitting