Tag: The Snyder Family Band

Houstonfest 2013 photos

| May 10, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Houstonfest is a small but growing festival now in its third year, dedicated to the memory and example of banjo prodigy Houston Caldwell, who died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 18. Caldwell dedicated his life to song and service, and that’s what [...]

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Blue Ridge Artist Agency

| May 6, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Michael Davis, founder of successful Southern Gospel artist representatives, The Dominion Agency, has launched a bluegrass division. Blue Ridge Artist Agency will be based within Dominion’s Waynesville, NC offices, with a number of bluegrass acts on board. Davis and his team of affiliates will be working [...]

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New Snyder Family album on the way

| March 24, 2013 | 0 Comments
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North Carolina’s mega-talented Snyder Family has released this brief video announcing the Spring release of their fourth album, Building Bridges. Those who have watched Samantha and Zeb Snyder since they were quite young will get a kick out of seeing these studio clips of them [...]

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Adam Steffey solo project coming soon

| March 18, 2013 | 2 Comments
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Crossroads Music has announced a June release for New Primitive, a new solo project from Adam Steffey, on their new imprint, Organic Records. It will feature the award-winning mandolinist with The Boxcars on a mix of old time and bluegrass music, playerd with some of [...]

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Generation Bluegrass: The Future is at Hand

| October 1, 2012 | 0 Comments
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One of the highlights of walking around IBMA is seeing the number of young people hanging around picking and jamming in groups, sometimes in just pairs or trios, sometimes by the dozen. These youngsters, sometimes as young as nine or ten and all the way [...]

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Generation Bluegrass at Fan Fest 2012

| September 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
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The Mast Farm Inn and Bluegrass Today are delighted to announce a premiere screening of Generation Bluegrass during Fan Fest in Nashville on Friday, September 28. As you might guess from the title, the film is focused on young bluegrass musicians, and is a joint effort of [...]

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Generation Bluegrass at IBMA

| August 31, 2012 | 1 Comment
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Here’s more news about an upcoming bluegrass film project, this time the youth-focused Generation Bluegrass. Actually, this film is more than just youth-focused. It was conceived, filmed, produced, edited and financed by bluegrass teens Corey Smith and Zeb Snyder. Both young men, who perform with [...]

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Generation Bluegrass coming soon

| May 4, 2012 | 0 Comments
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There has been news this past few months about a number of films about bluegrass and acoustic music. The long-awaited Punch Brothers movie is finally out, and work is nearly finished on The Porchlight Sessions. It’s a great time for independent movies about our music. [...]

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Stages – The Snyder Family

| November 1, 2011 | 3 Comments

When I first opened the Snyder Family Band’s new CD, titled Stages, before reading the CD jacket and listening to the title cut, the first thought that crossed my mind is that a family band which starts when the children are so young no doubt goes through [...]

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New Stages for Snyder Family Band

| September 15, 2011 | 0 Comments

Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee, recently released information about the forthcoming album – Stages – by the Snyder Family Band. The release is scheduled for October 18. Stages is the group’s third CD and, like the others, it features the amazing talents of 12-year-old [...]

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