The DC Bluegrass Festival, hosted in northern Virginia by the DC Bluegrass Union, will ve back in the spring of 2020 after a hiatus last year. This two-day indoor event was held from 2010-2018, but with much of the DCBU leadership
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Enter to win in Blue Highway’s 25th Anniversary giveaway
Blue Highway fans have a chance this holiday season to win some one-of-a-kind prizes in the band's 25th Anniversary giveaway this week and next. In an abbreviated 12 days of Christmas motif, there are six chances to enter, one daily from
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Little Bird recording video from Geraldine
Geraldine is a Baltimore-based old time band whose debut recording, Harvester, is available now online. Though only playing together for a short time, this bunch already has a repertoire of original material written within the band. They take their name from
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Columbia Sportswear sponsorship for Gary Brewer & the Kentucky Ramblers
As Gary Brewer and his bluegrass family gear up for their 40th Anniversary tour in 2020, they are proud to announce a partnership with Columbia Sportswear. Columbia will be a presenting sponsor for Gary and The Kentucky Ramblers, a brand that
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Ask Sonny Anything… Christmas memories
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who redefined bluegrass music in the 1960s, and noted banjo maven and collector of fine prewar
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Claire Lynch to Wilson Pickins Promotions
Wilson Pickins Promotions has announced that they will be handling tour publicity for Claire Lynch in the United States going forward. Though she shut down her touring band in 2015, Lynch continues to perform on an irregular basis in her two
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O’Connor Lee to Compass Records
Compass Records has announced the signing of Forrest O'Connor and Kate Lee O'Connor, who perform and record as O'Connor Lee. The two, husband and wife, also work together with Forrest's dad, the one-and-only Mark O'Connor, as The O'Connor Band. Kate and
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Roger Williams, Missouri Bluegrass fiddler, dies at 84
This remembrance of Roger Williams is a contribution from Howard W. Marshall, Professor and Chairman Emeritus in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has written two books on the old time fiddlers of Missouri. Roger A.
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For Those Who Care To Listen – Volume Five
After eight albums over the span of a dozen years, one can’t help but get the impression that the title of Volume Five’s new offering, For Those Who Care To Listen, bears a bit of irony. In a sense it’s
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Marking 100th anniversary of Curly Seckler’s birth
Years ending in “9” figure quite prominently in the life of Curly Seckler. John Ray Seckler (or Sechler) was born a few miles north-east of China Grove, Rowan County, North Carolina, in December 1919; in 1949 he joined Lester Flatt, Earl