They're back - for the fourth year in a row. That's right, the Banjo Babes Calendar for 2017 is now available, featuring both a full-sized calendar with high quality art photos of female banjo pickers, plus an audio CD with songs
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Mountain Faith sings the Anthem – again!
Mountain Faith has been called upon once again by the Atlanta Falcons to sing the National Anthem before one of their home games. At yesterday's contest with the San Franscisco 49ers, the band was brought to the center of the
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Jacob Burleson to Volume Five
Jacob Burleson has been announced as the new mandolinist with Volume Five. He will join the group effective January 28 when they perform at Everett’s Music Barn in Suwanee, GA. Jacob has been around bluegrass music all his life, growing up
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Carol Of The Bells from Sleepy Man
Remember those cute little boys who captured the world's attention on YouTube playing Earl Scruggs banjo tunes from their bedrooms in New Jersey? Those were the Mizzone brothers and they were an immediate sensation back in 2011 when their family
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Benny Birchfield stabbed
Benny Birchfield and Jean Shepard pose with a friend Benny Birchfield, the singer of the third part in the Osborne Brothers’ band during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and 79-year-old widower of the recently-deceased country music singer Jean Shepard, was
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Live In Sweden 1973 – The New Kentucky Colonels
The name Clarence White is uttered in reverent tones in the bluegrass world, and deservedly so. The young guitarist was in the midst of redefining the role of the acoustic guitar in bluegrass, and the electric in the burgeoning field
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Bluegrass Jamboree 2016
We heard this week from Rainer Zellner, chief promoter for Bluegrass Jamboree, a traveling bluegrass and roots music festival that tours central Europe each year. He has been putting on these shows since 2009, bringing US acts to perform in
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Carol Of The Bells from Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble
Here's a nice Merry Christmas from the Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble, performing their director Al White's arrangement of the lovely Carol Of The Bells. It's a difficult and demanding piece of music, but they pull it off nicely with a
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Nechville joins in Gatlinburg relief efforts
Nechville Musical Products is the latest bluegrass-oriented company to lend a hand to the relief efforts following the east Tennessee wildfires last month. The banjo builders were especially struck by the total destruction to the home and business of Pigeon Forge
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Georgia Maple video from Edgar Loudermilk
The Edgar Loudermilk Band has released a music video for the title track from their current Pinecastle project, Georgia Maple. It mines that rich bluegrass vein of the old home place and grandpa's farm. Edgar says that memories from his youth