Author: John Lawless

  • Wide Open Bluegrass takes to the streets

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    Perhaps the biggest change for World of Bluegrass in Raleigh for 2013 is the city's scheduling of a major downtown street fair to coincide with the weekend Wide Open Bluegras Festival during IBMA week. Wide Open Bluegrass is a ticketed event,

  • IBMA Songwriter Showcase writers announced

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    The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the writers invited to showcase new songs during the 2013 World of Bluegrass Convention in Raleigh, NC this September. Participants for this annual event are chosen from among entires submitted to the organization each

  • Tim Carter on a Bang Bang tour

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    Tim Carter, the banjo pickin' half of The Carter Brothers, is currently on tour with an all star band in support of his Bang Bang album. Tim May is on guitar, Barbara Lamb on fiddle, Matt Flinner on mandolin and Adam

  • Dan Miller is Going Through A Phase

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    Opening disclaimer: I've known Dan Miller for the past 20 years, ever since he moved east from California to southwest Virginia in 1998. Dan had uprooted his young family and bought a home in the thriving metropolis of Hiawassee, VA to

  • Huber banjo auction to benefit Play It Forward

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    We've written before about the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation and their instrument lending program for young pickers, Play It Forward. Bluegrass students aged 8-16 can have access to quality banjos, fiddles, mandolins, or guitars for renewable one year loans at no

  • Moon from Rumpke Mountain Boys

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    We all know about bluegrass, and have become accustomed more recently to jamgrass. But what about trashgrass? Well that's what Cincinnati's Rumpke Mountain Boys call their take on the music, and it served as the title of their debut CD in 2012.

  • Sneak peek video from The Bankesters

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    Compass Records has put together a video sneak-peek at Love Has Wheels, their upcoming album for The Bankesters. It gives a taste of three tracks from the CD, plus interviews with the various members of the band.   They're in the middle

  • Sister Sadie – new special project band

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    Special project bands are sprouting all around bluegrass this year. The Masters of Bluegrass have been struttin' it old school with Bobby Osborne, Del McCoury, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury at festivals, and Sideline, featuring members of Mountain

  • Music City Roots to PBS

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    Music City Roots, Nashville's sole live weekly music television venue, is moving from your computer screens to your TVs. After months of negotiations, it was announced this morning that the program, which features the best of the Nashville new music scene,

  • On Down The Laurel River Line

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    Kentucky's Laurel River Line is set to release their second CD, On Down The Line, later this month and have a debut single to share in advance. Randy Jones, mandolinist with Lonesome River Band, produced the project which contains 13