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Thursday at Gettysburg
Frank Baker has once again shot for us at the 2013 Spring Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Here is a gallery of his photos from Thursday, May 16.
Catch Me If I Try – Kenny & Amanda Smith
There are few things in bluegrass I anticipate with quite the same enthusiasm as a new project from Kenny & Amanda Smith. I suppose I should admit that bias right up front. And I have not yet been disappointed by what this talented duo brings [...]
Albums of The Year? – 2012 Edition
Billboard has released their year-end list of the top albums in bluegrass music. As always for the magazine’s charts, these are strictly based on sales as measured by SoundScan, and dependent on both Billboard and SoundScan’s definition of “bluegrass.” Here is their 2012 list: 15. Bright Morning Stars — The [...]
Bluegrass at Cumberland Park
Woody Edwards got some photos yesterday afternoon at Nashville’s Cumberland Park, where Travelin’ McCourys and Friends performed at the conclusion of the Tennessee Titans game.
Kenny & Amanda Smith premier on Bluegrass Junction
Sirius-XM’s Bluegrass Junction is hosting another big premier on Wednesday morning (9/12) when Kyle Cantrell airs a new edition of Track-By-Track with Kenny & Amanda Smith. The pair’s next album, Catch Me If I Try, is due for release in early November from Gat3 Records, [...]
Don’t You Worry About Me – Rachel Burge
West Virginian Rachel Burge may not yet be a household name in the bluegrass community, but judging from her debut solo project, Don’t You Worry About Me, that could be about to change. She serves currently as mandolinist with Mountain Fever recording artists, No One You Know, whose [...]
No Part of Nothin’ – Alan Tompkins
“No part of nothin’,” Bill Monroe’s famous phrase describing music unworthy of praise just so happens to be the seemingly unusual choice for the title of the new release this month from Alan Tompkins, the president and founder of the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation. No Part [...]
Kenny & Amanda in the studio
The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band have spent much of the past two weeks recording at Gat3 studio in North Carolina, completing a new album which will be released soon on the Gat3 label. They tracked 14 new songs with the latest iteration of the [...]
No Part Of Nothin’ – Alan Tompkins
Alan Tompkins is a true Renaissance man, what once was called a dilletante without a hint of disparagement. Growing up in western Kentucky, he developed a passion for traditional music, and found that he possessed a knack for playing and singing bluegrass and Gospel songs. [...]
All-Stars signal Festival Season is coming
Forget the groundhog and his dismal forecast of six more weeks of winter. I saw a sure sign Sunday night that spring – and bluegrass festival season – is just around the corner. The occasion was the All-Star Jam at the Birchmere Music Hall just [...]
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