Bluegrass festival/concert news

  • Blistered Fingers report

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    This festival report comes from our friend Katy Daley, morning host on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. She also sent along these photos from David Staples. Hurricane warnings were up all over New England but Saturday was beautiful for the 37th Blistered Fingers

  • Yet more Gettysburg photos

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    Things got a bit crazy last week, and we didn't get as many of Frank Baker's terrific Gettysburg photos up as had been planned. Here is the next batch, with more still to come. This time, we feature shots from both

  • Junior Sisk at Ocean Lakes

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    Saturday evening at the Ocean Lakes Family Campground Bluegrass Weekend I had the pleasure of catching both sets performed by Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice. I hadn’t seen Junior perform since he was with Blueridge, but he has always been

  • Ocean Lakes survives Irene

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    This festival report comes from T.J. Boley, who we hope will be one of our regular correspondents when the site relaunches in September. Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Myrtle Beach, S.C. would seem to be the perfect venue for a Bluegrass

  • John Cowan to tour later this year

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    John Cowan will be touring this Fall with an acoustic trio during a break in his schedule with The Doobie Brothers, to whom he had returned as a full time member in 2010. Most of us in the bluegrass world were

  • Still more Gettysburg photos

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    Here is yet another fine gallery of Frank Baker's photos taken at the Fall Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival last weekend. This one captures performances from Lonesome River Band and Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen. To see all of Frank's Gettysburg images, just

  • More Gettysburg photos

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    Here is another fine gallery of Frank Baker's photos taken at the Fall Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival last weekend. These capture sets from Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Speaking of Chris Jones... we are delighted that Chris

  • Gettysburg 2011 in photos

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    Frank Baker was on hand at the Gettysburg fall festival last weekend, and send along a plethora of fine photographs - so many, in fact, that we will have to publish them in multiple posts over the next few days. Let's

  • To infinity and beyond… on the banjo!

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    I caught up recently with Jayme Stone, Canadian-based but world-inspired banjo player, and learned that he continues in his quest to place the ol' five in new and unexpected settings. He has notably recorded and performed with prominent west African