Bluegrass festival/concert news

  • Melefest 2011 on Bluegrass Today

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    For the first time, Bluegrass Today will have a correspondent on site at Merlefest, next weekend's mega music festival in Wilkesboro, NC. The event includes performances over four days from perhaps the most widely divergent roster of musical acts you can

  • Random thoughts on a new bluegrass season

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    Our roving correspondent David Morris shares a few loosely-related thoughts as we move forward into the 2011 festival season. THE GIBSONS SOAR. Could this be the year of the Gibson Brothers? A year after Ring the Bell won song of the

  • Jake Jenkins benefit show in Texas

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    Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show are giving a special performance in Lubbock, TX on April 22 as a benefit for the family of Jake Jenkins. Jake, a former member of Big Country Show, was killed late last month when his

  • AKUS tour – Target bonus CD

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    Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced the summer tour schedule, starting June 4, in support of their latest recording, Paper Airplane. Things kick off with 2 days in Louisville, KY followed by a stop at Bonnaroo on 6/11 and a

  • Jam Camp scholarship available

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    Here's some great news for beginning jammers who had been hoping to attend Pete Wernick's Jam Camp later this month in North Carolina. Pete has announced that a group of former camp attendees have pooled their resources to offer a full

  • Dixon Music Park for sale

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    We heard last night from Bessie Reeder, who with her husband Scott has put on the Pickin' Time in Dixon festival over Labor Day weekend for 42 years. She tells us that theirs is the oldest bluegrass festival west of

  • Prowlers in Wolfersheim

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    Here's the ninth report by The Henhouse Prowlers from their ongoing European tour. This comes from banjo picker and founding member, Ben Wright. The guys have promised daily reports (with photos) from

  • Bearfoot – new look and sound

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    I had the good fortune to hook-up with the members of Bearfoot on Friday when they performed here in Roanoke. The band let me crash their pre-sound check dinner for an interview, and I was able to catch the first

  • Henhouse Prowlers in Olen

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    Here's the eighth report by The Henhouse Prowlers from their ongoing European tour. This comes from bass player and founding member, Jon Goldfine. The guys have promised daily reports (with