Bluegrass festival/concert news

  • Mountain Stage

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    Recently we told you about Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver on Mountain Stage. Mountain Stage is a two-hour radio show recorded before a live audience in the Cultural Center Theater at the Capitol Complex in Charleston, WV. The show is now

  • Station Inn show to benefit IBMM

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    We posted last fall about the efforts of the International Bluegrass Music Museum to record first person chronicles of the early generation of bluegrass artists and songwriters for the benefit of future generations. This time critical endeavor, The Video Oral

  • Flecktones Spring tour kicks off 3/15

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    B???la Fleck & The Flecktones launch the second leg of their 2006 Tour today (3/15), in support of their newest Columbia release, The Hidden Land. They start out with two shows in Lexington, KY and then continue on a swing

  • Bluegrass and Ballet…again!

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    North Carolina bluegrass band, the Greasy Beans are currently on tour with the North Carolina Dance Theater. They are Performing a piece entitled SHINDIG, which is a part of a larger series called Under Southern Skies. This program is a

  • Lovell Sisters featured in The Chattanoogan

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    The Lovell Sisters, who we interviewed in a recent GrassCast, were also just featured in the Chattanoogan. The story is about the Southeast Whitfield High Bluegrass Jamboree "06, at which the Lovell Sisters Band is headlining. The sisters - Jessica, 19

  • Red Shipley tribute/benefit concert

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    This post is a contribution from Dave Roye, known to many of our readers as Crawdaddy Dave. Some of northern Virginia's finest bluegrass musicians will be performing in a musical tribute to bluegrass radio personality Red Shipley on Saturday, March 25th,

  • Edgar Meyer in the Ballet?

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    I just recently found an article about a ballet production that took place in the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts in Mountain View, CA. Once segment of the ballet featured a performance with bass player Edgar Meyer. This from InsideBayArea.com: The

  • Rockygrass announces 2006 lineup

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    Planet Bluegrass has just announced the complete lineup for this years RockyGrass bluegrass festival. The festival takes place in Lyons, CO July 28-30. 2006 is an exciting year for RockyGrass as it marks it's 34th year, and it's the fist

  • Bluegrass stage at 2006 ECMA conference

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    The East Coast Music Association's annual conference, which begins today and runs through Monday (2/27) in Charlottetown, PEI, is Eastern Canada's annual celebration of the music and the artists of Atlantic Canada. In its 17th year, the ECMA Awards show