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
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Dawgberry Blossom – new video from Cane Mill Road
North Carolina teen grassers Cane Mill Road have released a new single, a live version of the fiddle favorite, Blackberry Blossom, which morphs into a raucous run through David Grisman's E.M.D. So, of course, they title the new track, Dawgberry
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California Report: Jeff Kazor on the new Crooked Jades release, Empathy Moves the Water
Jeff Kazor co-founded the groundbreaking band, The Crooked Jades, in San Francisco in 1994, recording nine albums and touring the US and Europe. A producer, musicologist and composer, Jeff is also a multi-instrumentalist, and magnetic vocalist and performer. He created
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30 – Larry Stephenson Band
A true musical devotee and revered bluegrass staple, Larry Stephenson has plied his craft in service to that seminal sound for the past three decades. It’s little wonder then that 30 serves as an apt testament to his tenacity and
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Phil Leadbetter – 5 time cancer survivor!
Phil Leadbetter, renowned resophonic guitarist and all-around bluegrass personality, is one of the rarest creatures known to man. In addition be being among the most amicable and kind hearted people you would ever meet - and an extremely talented musician -
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Video Premiere: Gone from Louisa Branscomb
Celebrated songwriter Louisa Branscomb has released a new single from her current album, Gonna Love Anyway, in the form of a music video. The record is primarily a songwriter project, with Branscomb the author or co-author of all the tracks, and
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Ask Sonny Anything… Mount Rushmore of fiddle
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