Since we've all been under various COVID-19 restrictions since March, it's likely that you haven't been visiting your favorite guitar shop or music store much this year. With most all shops offering online ordering and delivery, we can all get
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2020 winners of the International Bluegrass Music Awards
Tonight, the IBMA hosted their very first all virtual International Bluegrass Music Awards presented by Count On Me NC. Streamed live online for the whole world to see, the show celebrated the 75th anniversary of the Original Bluegrass Band - Bill
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Southern Gospel – new film to feature bluegrass Gospel music
We heard some news this week from our Hollywood insider, the one and only Rhonda Vincent, about the theatrical film she had told us about a few weeks back. She had a chance to appear in this project on screen,
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Russell Easter passes
Prolific songwriter, musician, performer, and man of strong faith, Russell Easter, 90, eldest of the Easter Brothers, died on Tuesday, September 29. Easter passed away at Central Continuing Care in Mt. Airy, North Carolina. Born on April 22, 1930 to the late
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Melody Williamson and Geoffrey Keyes engaged
Today is a day that Melody Williamson won't soon forget. This afternoon, the talented fiddler and singer with Williamson Branch accepted the 2020 Momentum Vocalist Award during IBMA's Momentum Awards ceremony, streamed virtually online. And this evening she has announced her
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William E. ‘Bill’ McEuen passes
William E McEuen, known widely as Bill, has passed at 79 years of age. He died on Thursday, September 24, with the news shared by his brother, prolific multi-instrumentalist and award winning artist, John McEuen. Bill had been involved in John's
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Ask Sonny Anything… the future of bluegrass?
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
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Bluegrass returns to Denton FarmPark for Doyle Lawson Festival
Even in the midst of a pandemic, the show must go on and that is what is happening this weekend at the 40th Annual Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver Festival held at Denton FarmPark in central North Carolina. The event has faced
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Margaret ‘Bonnie Lou’ Moore passes
Margaret Louise Bell Moore, better known to television audiences in the 1960s as Bonnie Lou Moore, died on September 21. She was 93 years of age. Together with her husband, Hubert, they performed as Bonnie Lou & Buster Moore, finding a
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Gallagher Guitar Company lives on with new ownership
Since 1965, the Gallagher Guitar Co. has been building high quality, handmade acoustic guitars in Tennessee. Treasured by flatpickers and finger style guitarists alike, these fine instruments attained global recognition when the great Doc Watson acquired one of their G-50