Chandler Beavers - photo © Chelse Warren / OpenHeadTakesPhotos West Virginia mandolinist Chandler Beavers has a new single on offer, the first since his 2023 album, 4:09. Beavers works these days as a member of rockin' jamgrass band Alabaster Boxer, and with
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Bluegrass pickers needed for dinner show in Wisconsin
What happens if you take the sort of Hatfield and McCoys dinner theater show from Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, TN and move it to the upper midwest? Well, in the hands of David Fee, former proprietor of The Comedy Barn, Hatfield
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California Report – Fiddler Mikki Feeney on contests and more
Willow California fiddler, Mikki Feeney is no stranger to the Northern California camp and jam scene. I first came across Mikki wandering the grounds of the California Bluegrass Association Spring Campout at the Lodi Grape Festival Fairgrounds. This year the
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Sagebrush Continuum – Alex Graf
Though Brooklyn native Alex Graf began his musical journey as a jazz guitarist, he's more recently moved into the bluegrass and acoustic realm. Graf's debut release, Sagebrush Continuum, is a collection of tunes centered around Alex's flatpicking and improvisational sensibilities. The opening track, Rock
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From The Side of the Road… bluegrass anniversary gift ideas
Do you have a big wedding anniversary coming up? When we celebrated our 30th, I decided to consult the list of year or milestone-appropriate gifts as a guide for my gift (the 60th anniversary gift, by the way, is an
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Fries Fiddlers’ Convention rises from the ashes
Wonderful news today from Fries, VA (pronounced freeze) about the long-running fiddlers' convention held in the town starting in 1965. It had been a major stop for bluegrass and old time players in the mid Atlantic region since that time,
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Gabriel Ramírez passes
This remembrance of Catalan banjo player Gabriel Ramírez is a contribution from his student and friend, Lluis Gomez, now the premiere banjo player in northeastern Spain. Noted Spanish banjoist Gabriel Ramírez, also known as Gabi or Gabe, has died following a
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Henderson Hill – new video from Chris Jones
Mountain Home Music has a new single for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, another from their current six-song EP, Pages In Your Hand. This time out it's one Chris wrote with Thomm Jutz called Henderson Hill, which is under a
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Ben James on Huckabee with the Oak Ridge Boys
Bluegrass vocalist Ben James, a newly-minted member of the Oak Ridge Boys, made his television debut with the world famous quartet last weekend on Huckabee. James, a former member of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Dailey & Vincent, had been pursuing
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IBMA congratulates 2024 Leadership Bluegrass graduates
The International Bluegrass Music Association has introduced the graduating class from their 2024 Leadership Bluegrass symposium. Each year, roughly two dozen people are selected in a competitive process to attend a seminar in Nashville, designed to build future leaders within the