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Peter Rowan to tour with Mosier Brothers
Peter Rowan, who has see-sawed between traditional and experimental music throughout his career, has announced a four day run of dates with alt-grassers The Mosier Brothers in June. Rowan, of course, needs no introduction to most Bluegrass Today readers. He burst onto the scene as [...]
Banjos with the San Francisco Symphony
As part of a tribute to San Francisco-based philanthropist Warren Hellman, who passed away this past December, the San Francisco Symphony will include a suite of banjo music in their concerts this week. Hellman, a banjo player himself, was a strong supporter of the symphony, [...]
Winner announced in Silver Dollar City contest
Regular readers of Bluegrass Today will surely have noticed the campaign by Silver Dollar City offering free passes, accommodations and more to their big Bluegrass & BBQ Festival, starting next week. We know some of you were following it closely, as we started getting email queries [...]
Vince Gill going bluegrass again this summer
Vince Gill will once again be embarking on an acoustic bluegrass tour this summer, with an all-star cast in tow. Starting in mid-June, Gill has shows scheduled throughout the southern and central US with Jim Mills on banjo, Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jeff White on [...]
MerleFest 2012 in pictures
The 25th MerleFest was a blast and I had an amazing time shooting all of the spectacular musicians. This was my 5th time at the festival, and even though I wandered around quite a bit from stage to stage, I tended to stay around The [...]
Competitions set for Silver Dollar City
The music competitions for the 2012 Silver Dollar City Bluegrass & BBQ Festival in Branson, MO are set, with bands lined up to give it their best shot during the three week event, which runs from May 10 to Junes 3. First up, May 19-20, [...]
Town Mountain in Norfolk
We had a pair of photographers shooting yesterday in Norfolk, VA at the Town Mountain concert. They performed on the lawn at Norfolk’s lovely Heritage Museum, and from all accounts put on a whale of a show. Thanks to Bryan Brough of Eyecaptures Photography and [...]
Banjo auctions in May
Could it be all the auction shows gaining popularity on television? From the rough-and-tumble of Storage Wars to the more genteel Antiques Road Show, American TV watchers are catching the auction bug in a big way. So I suppose it should be no surprise to [...]
Earl Scruggs tribute at Big Lick Festival
Laura Tate Ridge sent along these photos from the Earl Scruggs tribute, held on stage as part of the Big Lick Festival in Oakboro, NC on April 13.
An honor for Carol Beaugard and WFDU
Carol Beaugard, long time host of Lonesome Pine RFD on WFDU-AM in the metro New York city market, shared this recounting of a special celebration in New York earlier this month. On April 1, 2012 The Emelin Theatre held a fundraiser at the Beach Point [...]
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