Category: Community and Heritage

Sammy Shelor’s Corn Acoustics Corn Maze

We expect that readers of Bluegrass Today know Sammy Shelor as the award-winning banjo player and manager of Lonesome River Band….

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Gibson Scholarship named in Charlie Derrington’s honor

The staff and management of Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend have announced that their annual youth scholarship has been named in honor of…

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Still tweaking…

Our apologies to anyone who tried to visit Bluegrass Today on Sunday, and was unable to reach us. Those issues have…

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Baby Del

Rob and Lisa McCoury celebrated the birth of their second child, and first son, just a few days ago. Del Mercer…

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Leadbelly’s ‘Old Man’ and the Work Song Tradition

Reader Jake Schepps recently wrote in to tell us about an article featured on the NPR website. The article, Leadbelly’s ‘Old…

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Ron Stewart checks in

We just heard from our friend Ron Stewart, current fiddler with JD Crowe & The New South, and one of the…

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Wichita Rutherford gives away DVDS

I just got a note from our pal Wichita Rutherford. He’s got something special happening at WichitasBlog.com and he wanted the…

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Earl Scruggs to attend Guinness attempt in Atlanta

Last month, we reported on the planned attempt for a Guinness Book record in the Largest Musical Ensemble with banjo players…

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Tower Records files chapter 11 bankruptcy

Tower Records is a name most music fans/buyers are familiar with. Most of us have probably bought a CD or two…

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eBay restores Kingston Trio banjo to original owner

Thanks to Becky Taylor for passing along this heartwarming story which appears in today’s issue of The Richmond Times Dispatch. It…

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