If you've ever attended Rudy Fest or the Poppy Mountain Music Festival in Kentucky, chances are you've met Jerry "Chainsaw" Bryant. For some time Chainsaw has done maintenance on site, helped park cars, and done odd jobs at Poppy Mountain.
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Bil VornDick’s studio gear to be sold at auction
Vaunted recording engineer and producer, the late Bil VornDick, touched a great many people during his life, not only with his remarkable skill in recording bluegrass, folk, and other acoustic music, but also providing assistance to countless organizations, colleges, and
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Todd Taylor banjo pickup from 12 Bar Blues Pickups
The 12 Bar Blues Pickups company in Connecticut has announced their latest model, a banjo pickup endorsed by Todd Taylor. 12 Bar Blues Pickups is a small, family business run by father and son Marshall and Jon Hammett. Their speciality is
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Jake Workman releases 20 Flatpick Standards, Vol. 2
Like so many bluegrass artists during the recent pandemic shutdowns, Jake Workman, hot shot guitar slinger with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, turned his attention to offering online instruction when work was scarce. Now that touring and live performance is back
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Charmed Life supports turtle preservation with new picks
Scott Memmer, who runs the Charmed Life Guitar Picks company in Los Angeles, has introduced a new set of items to their high quality collection of synthetic material flatpicks. This special edition of picks are dedicated to the preservation of sea
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Kim Robins has new plans for her bluegrass career
Like many other bluegrass entertainers, Kim Robins has been thinking for some time about how she could stay active in the business, without having to travel across the country. A successful Pinecastle recording artist, she has been involved in performing
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Big day for Danny Burns – new single and newborn son!
Bonfire Music Group artist Danny Burns is really celebrating today. Not only does his new single release today, a grassed up version of Sting's Fields of Gold, but last night his wife, Áine Burns, gave birth to their fourth child! After
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Recording King debuts new Carl Jackson model banjo
Greg Rich and Carl Jackson with the Carl Jackson Signature banjo at SPBGMA - photo by Robin Jackson Recording King has recently announced a new model to their line of banjos: the Carl Jackson Signature Edition model. "We've worked with some
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Tom Gray’s 82nd birthday bash
The DC Bluegrass Union hosted a party over this past weekend to celebrate the birthdays of two capitol area bluegrass greats, Tom Gray and Carroll Swam, both of whom are turning 82 years of age. Tom's 82nd was last week,
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Jaime Carter and the stolen bass in the woods
Here's a true life story that will warm the heart of anyone who owns a treasured musical instrument, and likely everyone who is involved in the bluegrass community as well. Jaime Carter is a bluegrass bass player from South Carolina, currently