Bluegrass festival/concert news

  • What IBMA Can Learn from Merlefest

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    Leaders of IBMA and the city of Raleigh can breathe a little easier now that another year of MerleFest is in the books. The annual four-day roots music extravaganza in Wilkesboro, NC, was the first major music festival held in the

  • The Venues – The Hamilton Live

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    While bluegrass festivals are rightly credited as being the salvation of bluegrass music and have for decades provided the highlights for each summer, there are thousands of accommodating venues throughout the world that provide work for bluegrass bands during the

  • Mountains of Music schedule released for 2016

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    The good people with Virginia's Crooked Road have released the schedule for their 2016 Mountains of Music Homecoming, a ten day series of concerts and festivals spread all across the southwestern part of the state celebrating all forms of mountain

  • More from Mile Twelve in Ireland

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    Here's the second report from Boston's Mile Twelve as they travel through Ireland sharing their contemporary bluegrass sound. The band is Evan Murphy on guitar, Nate Sabat on bass, BB Bowness on banjo, and Bronwyn Keith‐Hynes on fiddle. We're reaching the halfway point

  • Blue Highway postpones Fan Appreciation Concert

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    Owing to a family health emergency, Blue Highway has announced this morning that they will have to postpone their much-anticipated Fan Appreciation Concert, scheduled for April 30. The show was to have been an all-request program, with ticket holders getting

  • Rhonda with 45 RPM at the Station

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    Last Tuesday at Nashville's Station Inn, Music City's favorite traditional country band, 45 RPM, did a show with Rhonda Vincent as featured guest vocalist. It turns out that a lot of bluegrass artists and personalities are fans of the old school

  • Mile Twelve in Ireland

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    Boston's Mile Twelve has just launched a three week tour of Ireland, bringing their contemporary bluegrass sound to pubs, radio audiences and others across the Emerald Isle. Banjo picker BB Bowness tells us that they are already having a fantastic time. "We've played our

  • Old Settlers Music Festival 2016

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    Thanks to the organizers of the Old Settlers Music Festival in Austin, TX who shared these images of the various bluegrass artists who performed last weekend at the annual alternative music and entertainment event.

  • Jeff White at The Station Inn

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    This past weekend found bluegrass artist Jeff White at Nashville's Station Inn, debuting the music from his new solo project, Right Beside You. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper served as his band, with Jeff's Earls Of Leicester bandmate Charlie Cushman on banjo. We