Bluegrass festival/concert news

  • Jon Glik fiddlin’ in Tokyo

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    We heard this week from Kaz Inaba, who shared some photos and a few words about a show this week in Tokyo where he welcomed famed Maryland-based fiddler Jon Glik to the stage. "A few days ago, on May 14, my

  • Bluegrass Weather Report – 5/17/13

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    Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with information about the Bloomin' BBQ & Bluegrass festival this weekend, and a quick guitar lesson.   And don't forget our Ugly Mandolin contest... Ugly Mandolin May will continue until the end of the month. We're not mocking anyone or anything;

  • Photos from Willow Oak

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    Thanks to Laura Tate Ridge for this fine gallery of photos from the Family Style Bluegrass Festival, held late last month at Willow Oak Park in Roxboro, NC.  

  • Grand Masters to remain in Nashville

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    For the past 7 years, the venerable Grand Masters Fiddler Championship has been held in Nashville during the IBMA World of Bluegrass week in late September. It had been hosted at the Opryland theme park from 1972 until it was left

  • Yet more MerleFest 2013 images

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    Here's another gallery of Andy Garrigue's photos from MerleFest 2013, this time focusing on The Avett Brothers and their flamboyant cellist, Joe Kwon. Andy shared these few words about their show. “While the attention is often focused on Scott and Seth

  • Silver Dollar City adds Bluegrass Cruises

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    Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ festival has added a new wrinkle for 2013. The annual mega-fest which runs continuously from May 9-27 in Branson, MO, will feature bluegrass lake cruises on their paddlewheel showboat, Branson Belle, May 24-26. Monroe Crossing will

  • A Stars & Bars Reunion

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    It’s a good thing Joe Zauner was hungry one night while visiting his aunt and uncle 35 years ago. It cemented his place in bluegrass folklore. Zauner, a picker from the Washington D.C. suburbs, chose a western Maryland pizza shop that