Tag: Bluegrass Youth

Scholarship winners for Wernick’s MerleFest Jam Camp

| April 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Pete Wernick has announced the names of two youngsters from western North Carolina as scholarship winners for his Bluegrass Jam Camp in Boomer, NC later this month. Liam Purcell, 10, of Deep Gap and Kinsey Green, 14, of Boone are both multi-instrumentalists, immersed in bluegrass [...]

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Radio Ramblers with Alternative Strings

| March 8, 2013 | 3 Comments
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This weekend in Centerville, OH, Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers will be performing at a special event, one that is very close to Joe’s heart. They are on a twin bill Saturday with Alternative Strings, an extra-curricular music program for students in the Centerville school [...]

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Young Uns #1 – Paige Anderson and the Fearless Kin

| March 5, 2013 | 0 Comments
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We never cease to be enchanted by the youthful vigour of young musical talent.  Young Uns in bluegrass go back as far as Earl Scruggs pictured with his banjo-playing older brother Junie. Since then, there has been a young Sonny Osborne playing banjo with Bill [...]

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2012 Houston Caldwell Scholarship recipient at ResoSummit

| November 13, 2012 | 0 Comments
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The 6th annual ResoSummit was held this past weekend in Nashville, bringing together 100 resonator guitarists from around the world for three days of instruction and camaraderie with an all star faculty. Students traveled to Tennesse from across the US, as well as Denmark, Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, [...]

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Lonesome River Band with The Saline Fiddlers

| November 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
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When Lonesome River Band performed in Michigan this past weekend in support of their latest release, Chronology Volume Three, they spent part of Saturday afternoon with a young fiddle troupe called The Saline Fiddlers. LRB did a workshop with the troupe, which has been providing [...]

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2013 Australian Youth Bluegrass Scholarship

| October 11, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Applications are now being accepted for the 2013 Australian Youth Bluegrass Scholarship, established by to Aussie grassers The Davidson Brothers and Pacific International Music. The program is available to Australian residents under 26 years old who play or sing bluegrass music, with a $1500 cash prize and recording time [...]

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Generation Bluegrass at IBMA

| August 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
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Here’s more news about an upcoming bluegrass film project, this time the youth-focused Generation Bluegrass. Actually, this film is more than just youth-focused. It was conceived, filmed, produced, edited and financed by bluegrass teens Corey Smith and Zeb Snyder. Both young men, who perform with [...]

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Meet the Thomas Family Band

| August 17, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Bluegrass fans have long embraced the combination of cute kids and family bands. The more cynical among us may recoil from the somewhat saccharine nature of these youthful congregations, but often times the kinds turn into powerful performers in their own right, who make a [...]

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BrandyGrass from Brandy Miller

| July 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
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North Carolina teen banjo phenom Brandy Miller, winner of numerous banjo contests and a new Daughter of Bluegrass, has released her very first project, BrandyGrass, Volume 1. Clinging to her deep traditional roots, she chose ten enduring bluegrass gems (seven of which are instrumentals). Two [...]

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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys on Kickstarter

| July 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, the bluegrass pickin’ Mizzone brothers from New Jersey, have launched a Kickstarter campaign to ask their many web fans to consider helping them finance their second CD. The album, The Farthest Horizon, has been recorded and the Mizzones expect to have [...]

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