Author: Richard Thompson

Mike Lilly: funeral arrangements

As reported by Bluegrass Today on Thursday, banjo innovator Mike Lilly passed away on February 12, 2020, while in care at…

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GoFundMe campaign set up for Mike Lilly, now in hospice care

Wendy Miller, Mike Lilly, and Larry Sparks Innovative banjo picker Mike Lilly, who has been battling ill-health – specifically a form…

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Stanley Brothers’ I’m a Man of Constant Sorrow receives Grammy honor

The Stanley Brothers’ 1951 Columbia release of the classic song, I’m A Man of Constant Sorrow, is among the 2020 Grammy Hall…

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Marking 100th anniversary of Curly Seckler’s birth

Years ending in “9” figure quite prominently in the life of Curly Seckler.  John Ray Seckler (or Sechler) was born a…

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Rick Townend – Jan Jerrold Award winner 2019

Rick Townend, who has been playing bluegrass music since he was a schoolboy, is the 2019 recipient of the British Bluegrass…

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Lamar Grier passes

Lamar Grier, banjo player with Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys and the Strange Creek Singers, among other notable names, passed away on…

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Gospel Choices with Bob Amos

Here’s a further contribution of an occasional feature, where we ask bluegrass personalities to choose their top five Gospel songs. This…

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Fiddler Ray Legere honored by home province

One of Canada’s top fiddle and mandolin players, Ray Legere, was inducted into the Nova Scotia Country Music Hall of Fame…

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Young Uns – Brayden Williamson

Watching the Grass Grow is a recent song written by the subject of this Young Uns feature, Brayden Williamson. In it he…

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On This Day #57… Stanley Brothers Gospel 

On November 22, 1964, the Stanley Brothers began a few days of recording in Baltimore for radio personality Ray Davis.  Over…

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