The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America has announced Larry Stephenson as the 2018 inductee into their Hall of Greats. The organization has chosen one artist or bluegrass personality each year for this career honor since 1984, when
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Avery Welter to Larry Stephenson Band
Avery Welter has been announced as the new guitarist with The Larry Stephenson Band. He will be giving up his gig with The Churchmen, and starting with Larry in January. Welter is on hiatus from his studies in the ETSU Bluegrass,
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Larry Stephenson Band in Crystal River
The Larry Stephenson Band appeared at St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church in Crystal River, Florida this past Friday evening. They were fresh off a Danny Stewart bluegrass cruise and the audience was treated to two sets of top notch music. Each
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Weep Little Willow – Larry Stephenson Band
If you’re looking for clear, high lead vocals in today’s bluegrass community, one of the first voices to come to mind likely will be Larry Stephenson. Stephenson has been producing quality traditional bluegrass music for close to forty years –
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Flooding forces cancelation of Larry Stephenson release concert
The fallout from Hurricane Matthew continues to wreak havoc for bluegrass artists. We've learned today that Larry Stephenson has been forced to cancel his scheduled album release concert this Friday in North Carolina due to the flooding that remains a problem
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More photos from Nothin’ Fancy 2016
Nothin’ Fancy had a perfect weather weekend for their 16th festival this past weekend. Remington Ryde opened Friday’s show to a “ready for some bluegrass music” crowd. They were followed by multi-IBMA award nominees, Flatt Lonesome. Then Little Roy Lewis and
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Larry Stephenson Band in the studio
The Larry Stephenson Band is hard at work on their next album, tracking with Larry's co-producer Ben Surratt at Ben's Rec Room Studio in Nashville. This will be their third project for Larry's Whysper Dream Music label, a follow-up to their current record, Pull
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Thursday at Nothin’ Fancy 2015
Thursday at the 15th Nothin’ Fancy Bluegrass Festival opened with the wonderful sibling harmony of Flatt Lonesome. Bluegrass Today columnist, Chris Jones, brought the Night Drivers to the stage next. Virginia native, Larry Stephenson, is always a favorite at the
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Command performance for Lance LeRoy
Some of the top performers in bluegrass music got together this past weekend to offer a very special concert for Lance LeRoy. It was held at the home of his son, Lanny, in Mt. Juliet, TN where Lance and his
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Larry Stephenson talks Pull Your Savior In
Larry Stephenson joined us during World of Bluegrass week in September to talk about his latest release, the all-Gospel album Pull Your Savior In. We ended up reminiscing a bit about his days with The Bluegrass Cardinals a bit as