Craft Recordings has announced an April reissue of Tony Rice's Church Street Blues, the flatpick guitar maestro's only true solo project, originally released in 1983 by Sugar Hill Records. The album found Tony in fine voice, accompanying himself on guitar,
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Paris remembers from Discovering Tony Rice, by Bill Amatneek
The Bicentennial Bluegrass Band, aka, The Keith Unit, Paris, France 1977 (Tony Rice, Bill Amatneek,Bill Keith, David Grisman, Darol Anger) - photo © Patrick Ciocca Noted west coast bass player and bluegrass chronicler Bill Amatneek has made one of the vignettes
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The Rice Brothers Live for the First Time
If you need a last minute Christmas gift for the flatpicking guitar nerd on your list, David Grisman's Acoustic Disc and Acoustic Oasis Downloads may have just the thing. They have just released a live set by The Rice Brothers, recorded
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Discovering Tony Rice by Bill Amatneek
Bill Amatneek, bassist on the first David Grisman Quintet album and a four decade bass and banjo pro on the west coast, has written a new biography of Tony Rice, called Discovering Tony Rice. It is scheduled to be released
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More photos from the first Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest
Kody Norris Show at Camp Springs (5/27/23) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Here is a second gallery of Jeromie Stephens' photographs from this past weekend's inaugural Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest at the Camp Springs Bluegrass Park in Elon, NC. These
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Photos from Friday at the 2023 Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest
The Church Sisters with Caroline Owens at Camp Springs (5/26/23) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Jeromie Stephens braved the rain this past weekend for the Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest at Camp Springs in North Carolina. He shared a good many
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Debut Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest survives the rains
The cool dizzily weather failed to dampen the spirits of the artists and attendees at Camp Springs Bluegrass Park near Reidsville, NC, this weekend for the first annual Tony Rice Memorial Day Musicfest. Promoters, Cody and Donna Johnson, labored arduously
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Gordon Lightfoot remembered
Legendary Canadian folk music star Gordon Lightfoot passed away at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto on Monday evening, May 1, 2023. Age 84, he died of natural causes. The singer-songwriter's most enduring works include If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown, Carefree
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Together – new live project from Tony & Wyatt Rice
David Grisman's Acoustic Disc label has just released a truly historic recording of Tony and Wyatt Rice in their first duo performance in 1996. Entitled Tony & Wyatt Rice Together!, it captures these two brilliant flatpicking brothers from two consecutive
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Tony Rice Memorial Day Music Fest coming to Camp Springs
Cody Johnson, SPBGMA's newly-named Promoter of the Year, is adding a new festival to honor the legendary Tony Rice, at Camp Springs Blue Grass Park in North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend. Johnson said, "We are excited to announce that we