Category: Artist Spotlight and Interviews

Scott Napier’s need for music – two new donations

Sara Jane Crissman and Scott Napier/Jimmy Adams, Caitlin Hunton, and Scott Napier Scott Napier, Kentucky-based bluegrass music musician and educator, is…

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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: A Murder in Mississippi in Belgium

Though their handle sounds like the title of a crime novel, in truth, A Murder in Mississippi is a six-piece band…

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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: England’s Vanguards take their name seriously

The English have a clear connection to the music we refer to as bluegrass. After all, the sounds sown in Appalachia…

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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: New Valley String Band play Nordic old time music

It ought to come as little surprise to find the New Valley String Band creating a sound that hews to the…

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Keeping up with Milton Harkey after a health scare

Milton Harkey with his son, Christopher at Bluegrass First Class 2009 Milton Harkey, founding IBMA member and former Board Chair, Bluegrass…

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California Report: Composer, master fiddler and multi-instrumentalist Paul Shelasky

Lifetime California musician Paul Shelasky has literally done it all, and trying to stuff all of his championships, bands, travels, etc…

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Jerry Douglas talks Earl Scruggs and the Earls of Leicester

The late James Brown aside, Jerry Douglas could be considered the hardest working man in show business. Considered the foremost practitioner…

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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Stereo Naked grasses it up in Cologne

The somewhat unlikely handle aside, Stereo Naked excel at scaled-down bluegrass from a European perspective. The band is based in Cologne,…

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Darrell Scott talks bluegrass and Old Cane Back Rocker

Throughout his career, Darrell Scott has always owed an allegiance to past precepts. But it comes naturally, as his father, Wayne…

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On This Day #70: Remembering Jan Jerrold 

On this day …  On August 18, 1993, American-born British bluegrass activist Jan Jerrold passed away, aged 52. His importance in…

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