The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC has announced its summer activities, which includes a number of special events for children and families. The Center houses an Earl Scruggs museum and is also dedicated to preserving the music and culture
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The Life and Times of Carter Stanley at Jenny Brook
This weekend's Jenny Brook Bluegrass festival in Tunbridge, VT is trying something interesting and new this year. They will be including Gary Reid's one man show, A Life of Sorrow, the Life and Times of Carter Stanley, as part of
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Voting appeals and poor translations
For your consideration: You don’t want to hear the rest of this, do you? Well, the good news for you is that apparently this form of promotion has fallen out of favor this year for the second round of IBMA awards
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Bell Buckle Radio launches for Valerie Smith
Bluegrass singer, songwriter, and band leader Valerie Smith now has a new hat to wear. Radio programmer! Val has launched a new online bluegrass radio service called Bell Buckle Radio from her headquarters in Bell Buckle, TN. The 24/7 station is
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Debut release from Northern Connection
Baltimore’s not a city we automatically connect with bluegrass music, at least not as much as we might think of Rosine, Nashville, or Bristol, to name a few. However, Baltimore has played host to quite a list of storied musicians
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Junior Sisk takes over ‘mater sammiches at Bean Blossom
For his whole career as a bluegrass entertainer, James King had devoted and very loyal fans who sang his praises. Much of that came from the way King inserted raw emotion into a song, but another part was from the
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Banjo instructor sought at UNC Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the largest and primary campus of the 17 that make up the UNC system, is advertising now for a banjo instructor in their Music Department. This addition is part of their Bluegrass Initiative,
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Dreaming Enough To Get Me By video from Edgar Loudermilk
The Edgar Loudermilk Band featuring Jeff Autry has released a new music video for Dreaming Enough To Get Me By, one of the tracks on their current Pinecastle project, Georgia Maple. They shot on location at Tallulah Gorge in northeast Georgia
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Russell Johnson and the UNC Carolina Bluegrass Band
Last summer (2016) the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Music Department hired Russell Johnson, the well-known bluegrass singer, songwriter and mandolin player from Cary, North Carolina, to the faculty position of Ensemble Director for what was called the
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#MACCMonday — The Stanley Brothers Tribute featuring Junior Sisk & Don Rigsby
Each Monday between now and July 17 we will feature a report from Daniel Mullins about special performances set to occur during this year's MACC. The 2017 Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) festival benefits St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The multi-day