The popular Tunefox app for learning and improving your banjo, mandolin, or guitar playing has some major news. Not only has the innovative iOS app received major updates with added features and many new songs and arrangements in the library,
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Willow Oak Bluegrass Festival is in full swing
The Kody Norris Show at the Willow Oak Bluegrass Festival (6/16/22) - photo by Gary Hatley Willow Oak Bluegrass Festival in Roxboro, NC, is successfully in full swing despite overcoming numerous hurdles. Promoter, Mike Wilson, suffered a heart attack and underwent
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Crowe Fest launches in Kentucky at the end of August
We all knew it was bound to happen, and so it has come to pass. A new bluegras festival is launching this summer to honor the music and the memory of the great J.D. Crowe. Dubbed Crowe Fest, its first iteration
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Andy Hall talks Infamous Stringdusters and Towards The Fray
Infamous Stringdusters have always pursued their own muse. While they retain an obvious allegiance to bluegrass, they've never felt obligated to always stay within its parameters. Their latest album, Toward the Fray, finds them confronting the issues that have plagued
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Akira Otsuka’s photos of The Shuffler Family in the studio, circa 1977
Deb Shuffler Corley, Jennie Shuffler Brittain and George Shuffler at Track Recorders - photo © Akira Otsuka Akira Otsuka has shared another of his galleries of archived photographs from the 1970s, this time of George Shuffler and his family recording at
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Dave Osborne of Greensboro’s Music Barn passes
Dave Osborne, 75, of Greensboro, NC, passed away on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. He served in the U.S. Army and performed in a traveling show that entertained the troops during the Vietnam War. As a young professional musician, Osborne played with
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2022 CAM Fest to remember Keith Whitley in special tribute
The 2022 CAM Fest, i.e., Colt Adams Memorial Bluegrass Festival, has scheduled a very special tribute to Keith Whitley on the Saturday night of their four-day event. The festival is hosted to honor the memory of Colt Adams, a honor student
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Banjo Jamboree celebrates 50th anniversary in 2022
Dubbed "The oldest Bluegrass Festival in Europe," the Czech bluegrass community will celebrate the 50th annual Banjo Jamboree festival later this this month - June 17-18, 2022 – in the town of Čáslav, about 70 km east of Prague. Headlining this
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More photos from the Graves Mountain Music Festival 2022
Appalachian Road Show at the 2022 Graves Mountain Music Festival - photo by Jeromie Stephens Here is a second gallery of images taken by Jeromie Stephens at last weekend's Graves Mountain Music Festival near Charlottesville, VA. Looks like they had wonderful
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California Report: Mandolinist John Reischman
John Reischman - photo by Snap Jackson Grammy winner, mandolinist, composer, and instructor John Reischman has way too many credentials to be listed here. His bio tells the story of a musician's musician and master of many styles, yet his sound