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Bluegrass Today Profiles

  • On This Day #66 – First Bill Monroe recording with Flatt & Scruggs

    September 16, 2021 | by Richard Thompson

    On September 16, 1946, Bill Monroe recorded for the first time with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.   These two evening sessions, 75 years ago today, were the first involving the aggregation acclaimed as the 'original bluegrass band,' comprising Bill Monroe

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  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Portuguese banjo man Andre Dal

    September 9, 2021 | by Lee Zimmerman

    I don't consider myself as a solo performer because first and foremost, Portugal is a country where bluegrass music is almost unknown, and it's very hard to book gigs as a band, and even worse as a solo banjo performer,”

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  • Jerry Salley and Billy Blue Records

    September 6, 2021 | by Sandy Hatley

    Billy Blue Records in Nashville, TN, is fast becoming one of the premiere labels in bluegrass music. In just over three years, Jerry Salley and his team have signed an impressive list of performing artists, and released attention getting projects.

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  • Circus No. 9 back at it post pandemic

    August 30, 2021 | by Dale and Darcy Cahill

    Circus No. 9, a progressive bluegrass band out of East Tennessee is back on the road this summer. We met up with them at the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in Goshen, CT where they played two sets on Friday, and then

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  • Meet Pat Morris, new IBMA Executive Director

    August 26, 2021 | by John Lawless

    For most IBMA members, this year's World of Bluegrass convention will be their first chance to meet Pat Morris, the newly-installed Executive Director of the organization who took over for Paul Schiminger in June of this year. These first few

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  • Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Professional Deformation from the Czech Republic

    August 26, 2021 | by Lee Zimmerman

    Based in the Czech Republic, Professional Deformation is a relatively new band, but one borne from plenty of professional experience. Each of the musicians involved — Jakub Racek (guitar, vocal), Radek Vaňkát (reso-guitar, vocal), Petr Vošta (banjo, vocal) and Karel

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  • Snuffy Smith – long time North Carolina picker retiring

    August 23, 2021 | by Sandy Hatley

    Retirement is a goal for most people. Retirement from a lifetime of playing bluegrass music is rare. Retirement from performing 50 years with the same band is unheard of in bluegrass. Yet that is just what Thomas Lee "Snuffy" Smith

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  • California Report: Kathy Kallick on songwriting and the Kathy Kallick Band 

    August 19, 2021 | by Dave Berry

    Kathy Kallick has won a Grammy, two IBMA Awards, and is a recipient of a Lifetime Membership from the California Bluegrass Association. She co-founded the internationally acclaimed Good Ol' Persons, and has released twenty-two albums. She's played with many of the country's top roots musicians – including her

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  • On This Day #65 – Cecil Surratt

    August 17, 2021 | by Richard Thompson

    On this day … On August 17, 1926, Cecil Surratt was born in Premier, near Coalwood in McDowell County, West Virginia. He was one of eight children. There were about ten generations of guitar pickers on his father's side.  So, it wasn't

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  • Craig Duncan – a bluegrass music businessman

    August 12, 2021 | by Sandy Hatley

    Who is Craig Duncan? A member of the North American Fiddlers Hall of Fame, recipient of 2018 Dove Award's Instrumental Album of the Year, and a member of Who's Who in Music and Musicians, he is quite an accomplished musician.

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