Since 1986, Terry Lease has been actively promoting bluegrass music in Illinois, and surrounding midwestern states. He and his wife, Jan, hosted their first Greater Downstate Indoor Bluegrass Festival in Springfield in November of '86, and have run it annually
Bluegrass festival/concert news
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Hot Rize in Ann Arbor
Hot Rize made the Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan one of the current tour stops where they played to a packed house. About a third of the audience were seeing them for the first time. The rest of us were
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 11/18/14
Heres our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the big doin's this in Withlachochee, FL.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 11/11/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Four Corners States Bluegrass Festival in Wickenburg, AZ.
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Day 1 at SOIMF, Fall ’14
Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers kicked off the November edition of the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. New member, fiddler Jason Barie, made his debut. Ralph Stanley II then brought the signature “Stanley” sound to the stage. Russell Moore wowed
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Noam and Aoife on tour
Two of the most celebrated artists in the vicinity of bluegrass music - with two of the coolest names - Noam Pikelny and Aoife O'Donovan, are winding up a duo tour over the next week across the Midwest. To help promote
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 11/4/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Greater Downstate Indoor Bluegrass Festival in Springfield, IL.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 10/29/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegras Weather Report, looking at the Dixieland Fall Bluegrass Festival in Waldo, FL.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 10/21/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at South Carolina's Mostly Bluegrass Festival in Edisto Island.
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Bluegrass Weather Report – 10/14/14
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival and Chili Cookoff in Farmer's Branch, TX.