If you attend bluegrass festivals in the central US, you may have seen The Lindsey Family on stage. The group features mom, dad, and some combination of their 11 children picking and singing bluegrass Gospel music. Their show is hard to
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Meideal introduces capo/tuner combination
The tuner/capo combination seems to have hit its groove in the fretted instrument accessory market. A number of companies now offer them for sale, with a new, lower-priced version from Shenzhen Meideal Musical Instruments Co. in China may tempt a
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Congratulations Cory and Jett Piatt!
Cory and Jett Piatt at The Old School Farm to Table in Nashville - photo by Carson Photography On January 6 in Nashville, Cory Piatt and Jeanette (Jett) Willis were married at the Old School Farm to Table restaurant. Cory is the
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Bill Monroe For Breakfast – on eBay!
Back in 1997, Tom T. Hall released a song called Bill Monroe For Breakfast. Like so many of his compositions, it was a wistful look back at his own childhood, where he recalled listening to the music of Bill Monroe
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Greg Blake to spin through Ireland
Greg Blake, guitarist and lead vocalist for Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, is using his time off while the band is idle this month to tour in Ireland. He is taking many of the pickers who helped him record his 2015 album,
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Roy Acuff’s fiddle turns up at Goodwill
For many charitable folks, Goodwill is a place to donate old clothes and furniture that have gone out of style. For an anonymous donor in the Kansas City area, it was apparently a place to drop off a noteworthy fiddle
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Surprise party for Bob Perilla, a photographer’s muse for 18 years
DC mandolin legend Akira Otsuka hosted a small picking party at his Maryland home on 30 December 2017. This is a traditional year end occurrence, however this time one of the guests was unaware of a surprise coming his way.
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Hal Boyd undergoing quadruple bypass surgery
Hal Boyd has been a beloved member of the bluegrass community in east Tennessee for many years, and thanks to emergency surgery underway today, it looks like he'll be one for some years yet to come. He's the co-owner of Boyd's
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Funeral arrangements for John Ray “Curly” Seckler
The funeral services for John Ray "Curly” Seckler will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 1, at Spring Hill Funeral Home in Nashville. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville, TN. The family will receive friends on
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Bluegrass Heritage Foundation gets Riley Gilbreath a new Huber banjo
The Bluegrass Heritage Foundation is a volunteer organization in Texas which serves to promote and support bluegrass music in the state. They are also involved in the annual Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cook-Off each fall, and also manage a program to