Bluegrass festival/concert news

The 2005 Christmas Pageant of Peace???opening ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 1, 2005. This is the 82nd lighting of the national Christmas tree. The event occurs at 5PM EST on the Ellipse near the White House. This opening ceremony

John has been busy this weekend as AcuTab and Herschel Sizemore present their annual instructional event, Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend. I spent the afternoon yesterday just observing the activities and then participated, in a very small way, in the faculty concert

The Grascals have been invited by country supergroup Brooks & Dunn to open their sold-out show at New York"s Irving Plaza on Thursday, November 10. This show is part of the Country Takes New York festivities leading up to the

A DVD highlighting the 2005 Poppy Mountain Bluegrass festival is now available from Keepsake Video Productions. The DVD disc is entitled The Poppy Experience. Not having seen the disc, we can't really comment of the content or the quality of

Out Wickenburg Way is an annual bluegrass festival and fiddle championship held in Wickenburg, AZ. This year's event takes place on November 11, 12, & 13, 2005. The Four Corner States Bluegrass Festival is sponsored by the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce,

One of the highlights of the annual Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend each year is the Saturday evening faculty concert. The primary focus of this three day event is instructional seminars and workshops for students of bluegrass music, and these sessions are

Tickets for Merlefest 2006 go on sale to the general public this coming Tuesday at 2 PM EST. Advance ticket sales for reserved seating has now closed. the Box Office will reopen on November 8 at 2:00 PM EST to the

Even though the IBMA Fan Fest has moved to Nashville, there will still be a major bluegrass festival in downtown Louisville, starting next March. The debut of the Banks Of The Ohio Bluegrass Festival will occur March 24-26, 2006 in

We just received word from Jay Armsworthy that the 2005/2006 concert schedule for American Legion Post 238 in Hughsville, MD has been announced. They will have shows featuring Danny Paisley, Larry Sparks, Lost & Found, and The Virginia Ramblers, and

The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that James Monroe (son of Bill), will open a bluegrass music park in Franklin, KY in the spring of 2006. The site is just north of the KY/TN border, about 45 miles from Nashville.