Author: Brance

  • Bluegrass t-shirt design contest

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    The 28th Annual Black Hills Bluegrass Festival, just outside Rapid City, South Dakota, is looking for a good t-shirt design. The festival is scheduled for June 27-29 this year and a design has yet to be chosen for this year's

  • Dailey & Vincent: CD release party

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    Tomorrow, January 29, 2008, is the official release of the new Dailey & Vincent CD. Last week they held a CD release party for a small group of family, friends, and industry VIPs at the Country Music Hall of Fame

  • FarmFest at Farmington Dragway

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    Our friend Cindy Baucom wrote in to tell us about a new festival she's a part of this year. The 1st Annual FarmFest will be held at the Farmington Dragway in Farmington, NC. The dates set for the festival are

  • The Josh Williams Band

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    Josh Williams recently appeared at Music from A Front Porch, the annual Murray State University fund raiser concert in support of the college station WKMS. Josh was there to introduce the Peter Rowan/Tony Rice Quartet. With more than 1,000 people

  • Woody Platt: Steep Canyon Ranger and fly-fisherman

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    Asheville, NC paper, the Asheville Citizen-Times, ran this story over the weekend about Woody Platt. The story, concerned with fishing as the main topic, appeared in the Outdoors section of the paper. Woody is best known to bluegrass fans as the

  • Test your knowledge of bluegrass

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    Here's something fun for you. Someone set up a quiz on GoToQuiz.com that will test your knowledge of bluegrass music. It's not terribly tricky or anything, only ten questions and I got 100%. If you're a hard core bluegrass aficionado

  • Julia’s Banjo

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    Rob and Alan Fennah are brothers with an interest in music and performance arts. Living in the UK they formed the band Alternative Radio in 1981. Their sound is most definitely not bluegrass. But recently the duo have been pursuing

  • Russell Moore interview at Americana Roots

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    Americanaroots.com posted a Q&A type interview with Russell Moore of IIIrd Tyme Out yesterday. During the course of the interview they discuss the new Rounder release Footprints: A IIIrd Tyme Out Collection, the song selection for that compilation, recent band member

  • Dailey & Vincent on the Opry

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    Bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent recently made their Grand Ole Opry debut. Both Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have played the Opry before as sidemen, but this was their first appearance while fronting their own band. The duo performed three songs

  • New York Times features Tom T. Hall

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    In yesterday's edition of the New York Times, the music section had a story featuring Tom T. Hall. The story was focused on Mr. Hall's relationship to country radio stations and was appropriately headlined as... Who Needs Country Radio? Not Tom