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Alan Perdue remembered, Bobby Franklin honored
This report is a contribution from Sandy Hartley. "Bluegrass enthusiasts form a closeknit family of brothers and sisters, brought together by our love of bluegrass music. Last month, we lost a brother, Alan Perdue, when he succumbed to a long battle with cirrhosis of the liver," shared friend and fellow musician,
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Sea Mountain Fiddlers Convention & Bluegrass Festival, new in ’19
The KOA Kampground in Myrtle Beach, SC will be the site for this year's inaugural Sea Mountain Fiddlers Convention and Bluegrass Festival in May. The Rivertown Bluegrasss Society in Conway is the sponsor of the festival, which is being billed as the 1st annual event, with Alan Bibey & Grasstowne as
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Happy 80th to Canadian promoter Tony Deboer
Tony Deboer with his daughter, Cindy, and cruising the festival in his golf cart Special thanks to Ryan Frankhouser and Remington Ryde, who are finishing up a tour in Canada this week, for making us aware of a very special milestone in Canadian bluegrass in March. Tony Deboer, widely described as the
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Man From Galilee from Randy Murphy & Clay Hess
Most bluegrass fans are well familiar with Clay Hess. He's been a part of our world most of his adult life, joining up with Ricky Skaggs when Bryan Sutton left Kentucky Thunder in 1999, and then working with Mountain Heart and Sierra Hull & Highway 111 before launching his own
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Chris Jones plots his course from roots to relevance
Credit Chris Jones and the Night Drivers for doing their part to expand the traditional tableau of bluegrass. While Jones has always offered his reverence for the roots, on his own, with his earlier outfits Special Consensus, Whetstone Run, the Lynn Morris Band, the Weary Hearts and with his own
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Pert Near Sandstone launches Road to Blue Ox podcast
Pert Near Sandstone has launched a new podcast, Road To Blue Ox, to help promote and prepare people for their annual festival in their native Wisconsin. The alt-grass quintet hosts the Blue Ox Music Festival each June, inviting many of the top acts in progressive and contemporary bluegrass to appear with
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Steve ‘N’ Seagulls launch US tour tonight
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New Jazz Lines lesson available from Kenny Smith
With the technology we have today, students of bluegrass music have an embarrassing wealth of resources at their disposal as compared to those of us...
Kyle Dillingham, Byron Berline, and the Broken Violin
While the smoke has settled in Oklahoma since fire destroyed Byron Berline’s Double Stop Fiddle Shop, yet another Okie native, Kyle Dillingham, has made something...
Greg Blake heading to Ireland in April
You may know Greg Blake primarily from his work as guitarist and vocalist with Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, but the West Virginia native has been...
The Madness & The Mandolin
Kelley Gibson is the 23-year old son of Eric Gibson of the award-winning Gibson Brothers, and a talented bluegrass musician in his own right. His father...
