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Grandma’s Rules for Drinking – Annie Lou
With a title like Grandma’s Rules for Drinking, the most recent release from Canadian folk group Annie Lou, offers intriguing possibilities for potential listeners. What they will find upon pressing play is an enjoyable collection of original music in the string band tradition. The songs [...]
Coda Mountain Academy adds bluegrass
Another successful infiltration for bluegrass music… We heard recently from Brandon Green, lecturer and band director in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music program, about a music camp in West Virginia where he teaches. It’s called the Coda Mountain Academy, and they offer [...]
Grand Masters to remain in Nashville
For the past 7 years, the venerable Grand Masters Fiddler Championship has been held in Nashville during the IBMA World of Bluegrass week in late September. It had been hosted at the Opryland theme park from 1972 until it was left homeless when the park closed [...]
Jim VanCleve medical fund established
We had posted previously about Mountain Heart fiddler and Nashville producer/session player Jim VanCleve, and his recent battle with dengue hemorrhagic fever. Friends and colleagues in Music City have set up a fund to assist Jim and his family with medical bills and living expenses. [...]
Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band – Roots Of My Raising
Clinton Gregory would appear to be another country music artist taking a stab at bluegrass. The Virginia native had some chart success in the early ’90s, particularly with the song If It Weren’t For Country Music I’d Go Crazy. Gregory went into a deep decline [...]
Tex Logan released from hospital
Good news from fiddle legend, Tex Logan. After having been hospitalized late last week in hypertensive crisis, Tex has been released into a rehab facility for what is expected to be a short stay for occupational and physical therapy before returning home. He felt well enough [...]
Tex Logan back in the hospital
Legendary bluegrass fiddler Tex Logan was hospitalized over the weekend, diagnosed with an emergency hypertensive crisis. He is 85 years of age, and being tended at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Tex, who worked in the 1950s with Bill Monroe and The Lilly Brothers, had [...]
Big Sciota from Jaywalkers
Jaywalkers is an interesting and eclectic English string band from southeast of Liverpool who have developed quite a reputation among fans of modern acoustic music in the UK. They have a pair of albums, Early For A Thursday and 16 Miles, to their credit over [...]
CBA Bluegrass Camp for Kids
The California Bluegrass Association will add a new feature this year during their 38th Annual Father’s Day Festival in Grass Valley, CA. It’s a formal, four-day workshop for young grassers, ages 8-16. This is in addition to their Kids on Bluegrass program, which prepares and coaches young [...]
Utility infielder sought for Dollywood
The good folks at Dollywood asked us to pass along that they are on the hunt for a utility player for the 2013 season, which runs from April 2013 to January 4, 2014. The successful applicant must play fiddle, and will be able to proficiently double [...]
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