Junior Sisk at the 2021 Starvy Creek Summer Bluegrass Festival - photo by Charlie Herbst This past weekend, the 36th annual Starvy Creek Summer Bluegrass festival was held in Conway, MO. Festival promoters decided to call the 2021 festival the 36th
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2021 High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass Festival photos
The Blue Canyon Boys at the 2021 High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass Festival - photo by Kevin Slick Kevin Slick, President of The Colorado Bluegrass Music Society, sent along these photos from the High Mountain Hay Fever Bluegrass Festival last weekend.
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Dieter Rahner passes
This remembrance is a contribution from Mark Stoffel, mandolinist with Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, a native of Germany. The German bluegrass scene is mourning the loss of one of its most beloved and iconic members. Dieter Rahner, multi-instrumentalist, founder
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49th annual Armuchee Bluegrass Festival
This report is a contribution from Audie Finnell, who also provided the photos. The Armuchee Bluegrass Festival kicked off its 49th consecutive season over the past Memorial Day Weekend in Georgia, with a few changes due to the ongoing, yet diminishing
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Looking back to the first Hot Rize visit to France in 1980
This look back to the first time Hot Rize visited France in 1980 comes in three parts. First we have the recollections of Charley Sifaqui, a French journalist, banjo picker, and bluegrass lover who had the honor of accompanying the
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Tenders of the Flame: Celebrating Women at the Heart of Bluegrass
This article is contribution from Theresa Seiders in celebration of International Women's Day on Match 8. It is part of the Monroe Mandolin Camp's commitment to the preservation and promotion of traditional bluegrass music, through building connection, understanding, and community among
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Reflections of two lives well lived – Gary Farris and Jerry Baker
This remembrance is a contribution from Chris Sexton, longtime fiddler with Nothin' Fancy. He writes to recall the lives and contributions of two people whose lives were important to the band, and who deserved to be memorialized. The members of Nothin' Fancy
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Spanish string music from Lluis Gomez & Friends
Spanish banjo master Lluis Gomez was one of the participants in last month's CBA Jam-A-Thon, a 48 hour, online bluegrass festival held to raise funds for the California Bluegrass Association’s Youth Academy. The organizers sent out request to musicians all
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Richard Hoover of Santa Cruz Guitar on his friend, Tony Rice
This reflection on the late Tony Rice is a contribution from Richard Hoover of the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. He and Tony became close over the development of the Tony Rice Model crafted by Santa Cruz. Prodigious at four, incredible at
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Ron Stewart remembers Tony Rice
This remembrance of Tony Rice is a contribution from Ron Stewart, surely one of the finest bluegrass musicians working today, and perhaps one of the best ever. He currently works with Seldom Scene playing banjo and fiddle, and performs, produces,