You may think of people who have chosen bluegrass music as a profession as fearless types who proceed boldly into the future without a care for their material comfort, or family and financial stability. Perhaps you’re correct about the financial
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Remembering Brown Loflin
A large crowd gathered on Monday afternoon inside the music hall of Denton FarmPark, home of the Southeast's Old Threshers' Reunion, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's Bluegrass Festival, and the Country Christmas Train. They weren't there to be entertained, but came
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AmericanaFest 2019 takes time to bask in bluegrass
Bluegrass took stage front and center at this year’s 20th annual AmericanaFest. Granted, there’s no shortage of different genres represented under that wide umbrella, but it was a bluegrass legacy that seemed to shine throughout. That was evident practically from the
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Three days of bluegrass in the Ambazac Mountains of France
This post is a contribution from Charley Sifaoui, a bluegrass picker and enthusiast who has been active in France since the 1980s. He shared this report from a recent jam weekend among the lovely Ambazac Hills of the Limousin region
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Rethinking the Banjo on Sound Field
PBS Digital Studios is the home for original web content under the umbrella of America's Public Broadcasting Service. They offer a variety of programs in the fields of science, arts, and culture, produced by smaller teams than are commonly associated
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Kentucky Bound drops for Nothin’ Fancy
Together now for 25 years, Virginia's Nothin' Fancy is preparing to release their 16th studio album. For a group that was thrown together to enter a band competition in 1994, that's quite a run! Mountain Fever Records has a debut single
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Lots new this season at the Meadowgreen Music Park
Central Kentuckians who attend one of the shows during the 2019-2020 season at Clay City's Meadowgreen Appalachian Music Park will find a number of things new this year. Shows will still be held on Saturday nights starting in October, featuring top
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Grace Davis to Shannon Slaughter & County Clare
Grace Davis with Loose Strings - photo © Deb Miller, B Chord Photography Shannon Slaughter has announced that Grace Davis has joined his touring band, County Clare, playing bass. Grace has been playing bluegrass since she was in school, for the past
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Final photos from Delaware Valley 2019
Travelin' McCourys at the 2019 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker Here is our final gallery of Frank Baker's fine photos from the 2019 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. Frank is currently packing his grip for the long, long trip
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Alani Sugar – one take on the future of bluegrass
Alani Sugar with Che Apalache and friends at the Hill Center in Washington, DC - photo by David Morris I saw the future of bluegrass the other night, just a few blocks from the nation’s Capitol. It was in the form of