On This Day … Starting on Friday, September 3, 1965, the first Fincastle Bluegrass Festival, in Fincastle, Virginia, took place. “Wow, hard to believe it's been fifty years ago ... I was there for both of Carlton's first multi-day festival in 1965
Fred Robbins
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Friends remember Tex Logan
Thanks to Fred Robbins who captured several hours of video from the April 30 memorial service and jam session held in honor of Tex Logan in Madison, NJ. The memorial was led by Logan's longtime friend and musical compatriot Barry Mitterhoff,
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Doc Watson and Bill Monroe audio
Fred Robbins, one of bluegrass music's most diligent archivists, has assembled five stage recordings from Doc Watson on his web site. These are all contributions from Ken Landreth, captured between 1969 and '71. Younger festival goers may not know that during
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Tex Logan turns 85
Our friend Fred Robbins was on hand for Tex Logan's 85th Birthday Bash in East Hanover, NJ recently, and filmed the better part of the day's activities. He has posted the first of what he says will be several videos, this
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Bluegrass festival audio from 1969
For years, the indefatigable Fred Robbins has been posting and maintaining an online archive of bluegrass memorabilia, in the form of photographs, video and audio files. His particular specialty is the early history of bluegrass festivals, from the late 1960s
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Special C – Bluegrass In The Schools
Fred Robbins has spent many years chronicling bluegrass music, as a photographer and audio recordist starting in the 1960s, and more recently as a videographer as well. He has had articles published in Bluegrass Unlimited and is an active member