This report is a contribution from Nick DiSebastian, bass player with Town Mountain who have just completed a tour in Germany. On December 15th we departed for a 3 week tour across Germany called The Bluegrass Jamboree. Each year Rainer Zellner attends IBMA
Bluegrass festival/concert news
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Mountains of Music Homecoming in Virginia
The value of indigenous folk and acoustic music to regional tourism is something that is being realized in many parts of the US these days. Our cultural history doesn't go back as far as our friends' in Europe does, but people
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 12/9/14
Here's our Very Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Christmas in the Smokies festival in Pigeon Forge, TN.
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All Star Benefit for James King in Nashville
As they always do, a group of top bluegrass artists have banded together to put on a benefit concert for James King. It is scheduled for December 15 at The Nashville Palace, with all proceeds going to the James King
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 11/25/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at this Thanksgiving weekend's South Carolina State Bluegrass Festival in Myrtle Beach, SC.
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Special C does Australia
We heard last week from Greg Cahill, who shared a few words (and photos) about Special Consensus' recent trip Down Under. Special C made the first band trip to Australia last week to play the MountainGrass festival in Harriettville (about 4
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Terry and Jan Lease retiring
Since 1986, Terry Lease has been actively promoting bluegrass music in Illinois, and surrounding midwestern states. He and his wife, Jan, hosted their first Greater Downstate Indoor Bluegrass Festival in Springfield in November of '86, and have run it annually
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Hot Rize in Ann Arbor
Hot Rize made the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan one of the current tour stops where they played to a packed house. About a third of the audience were seeing them for the first time. The rest of us were
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 11/18/14
Heres our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the big doin's this in Withlachochee, FL.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 11/11/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Four Corners States Bluegrass Festival in Wickenburg, AZ.