Jack Hinshelwood at the 2024 Seagrove Fiddlers' Convention – photo © G Nicholas Hancock G. Nicholas Hancock was on hand at the Seagrove Fiddlers’ Convention at the Seagrove Elementary School in Seagrove, NC this past weekend to capture the event in photos for
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Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival returns to Shelbyville, IL
A popular bluegrass festival, honoring a special member of the community, is set to return this year to central Illinois. The Chet Kingery Memorial Bluegrass Festival had its debut run in May of 2013 in Arcola, IL, named in honor of
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Missy Raines talks Highlander, and shares new music video
Missy Raines & Allegheny - photo © Natia Cinco With her new album, Highlander, acclaimed vocalist and bassist Missy Raines makes a concerted return to her bluegrass roots. An ode to her native West Virginia, it is, in her words, a
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Cast A Lonesome Shadow – Larry Stephenson Band
Thirty five years ago, tenor singer and mandolinist Larry Stephenson struck out on his own and formed a group that's maintained strong vocal harmonies and first rate musicianship for several decades. Stephenson's latest release, Cast a Lonesome Shadow combines new, original material
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From The Side of the Road… collective noun usage for the bluegrass artist
We in the bluegrass music community have our own vocabulary, like referring to the banjo as "the five," an instrumental solo as a "break," a professional bluegrass income as "a living," etc. I think we could all still stand to
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Runaway Train – new single from The Travelin’ McCourys
New music today from The Travelin' McCourys! It's a new song written by Ronnie McCoury, Del McCoury, and Pat McLaughlin called Runaway Train, and it's played and sung with precisely the speed and abandon that the title suggests. Ronnie McCoury takes
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Bourgeois introduces Touchstone Signature models
Bourgeois Guitars in Lewiston, ME has announced two new models in their Touchstone series of more budget friendly guitars. These are guitars designed by Bourgeois, with tops hand-voiced and braced by their luthiers in Maine, and then carefully vacuum-sealed and
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Áine Burns to Bonfire Music
Bonfire Music Group has announced the signing of Irish singer Áine Burns to the label, and have released a first single of her Celtic bluegrass sound as an introduction. Born and raised in Bundoran in Ireland, and living now in South
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Knee Deep in Bluegrass drops for Ashby Frank
Knee Deep in Bluegrass is a Terry Baucom banjo instrumental through and through, complete with the punchy pull-offs, perfect timing, and powerful tone that are so undeniably the Duke of Drive's. Ashby Frank re-cut the Bauc original with his own jamming
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2024 Seagrove Fiddlers’ Convention winners
Maxton Byrd, recipient of the 2024 Alan Perdue Award at the Seagrove Fiddlers'Convention with the Perdue family - photo © G. Nicholas Hancock The 69th Annual Seagrove Fiddlers’ Convention returned Saturday night to the small pottery town in central North Carolina.