Tag: Claire Lynch

New music from Claire Lynch

| March 28, 2013 | 4 Comments
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Compass Records is getting ready to deliver a new CD from the Claire Lynch Band, and if a live performance of many of the songs Monday night in Rockville, MD, is any indication, it’s going to be a doozy. Dear Sister will be available for [...]

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A Few of My Favorite Things

| December 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
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As a Bluegrass Today correspondent, I get to listen to a lot of music during the year. Some on CDs, some live. Some traditional bluegrass, some most definitely not. Some of it terrific, some of it, well, not so much. But one of the most [...]

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Hills of Alabam – Front Porch String Band

| December 20, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Today, Claire Lynch is best known as a stellar lead vocalist, session vocalist, and songwriter. She has been named IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year twice, and gathered numerous IBMA and Grammy nominations. While she has led the Claire Lynch Band since 2005, she got [...]

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Trischka, Lynch awarded USA Fellowships

| December 3, 2012 | 2 Comments
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Noted singer and songwriter Claire Lynch and banjo pioneer Tony Trischka have been awarded 2012 USA Fellowships. These are given annually by United States Artists to recognize American artists of every kind who have demonstrated exceptional ability, and are uniquely influential in their field. Their [...]

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Claire Lynch at IBMA

| September 27, 2012 | 1 Comment
Claire Lynch and David Morris at IBMA 2012

Claire Lynch stopped by our booth yesterday afternoon, and spoke with David Morris about her plans for the future, near term. It sounds as though a new album is on the horizon, with a new label and a bit of a different sound. Here’s Claire and [...]

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A Tribute to Hazel Dickens

| September 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
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It’s only Wednesday, and early Wednesday at that, but I’m willing to bet the best music of the week has already been played and sang at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass. To be sure, many terrific bands will roll through the Nashville Convention Center for the [...]

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Three compilation releases coming from Rebel

| September 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Rebel Records has three compilation CDs set for an October 16 release. One is a collection of songs from the two albums that Claire Lynch & Front Porch String Band did for the label back in the ’80s, and the other two are budget anthologies [...]

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Claire Lynch to Compass

| August 30, 2012 | 1 Comment
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Compass Records has announced that Claire Lynch has signed a multi-album with the label, continuing their push to add more bluegrass-related acts to the roster. Other recent signees include The Gibson Brothers, Dale Ann Bradley, Larry Stephenson and Special Consensus. Claire and her talented band [...]

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Changes in artist representation

| August 17, 2012 | 0 Comments
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Three agencies have announced news this week that relate to artist representation in the bluegrass world. Ralph Stanley is now being booked by the Paradigm Agency, based in Nashville. Bobby Cudd with Paradigm will be handling Stanley’s dates. Unless you lay your mind to the dates, [...]

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MerleFest 2012 in pictures

| May 2, 2012 | 7 Comments
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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 [...]

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