Events

  • Ryan Holladay brings bluegrass to students

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    Bluegrass multi-instrumentalist Ryan Holladay, a veteran performer at 14 years old, will be performing tomorrow, Friday March 23, 2007, at the 18th Annual Savannah Music Festival in Savannah, Georgia. Ryan is performing as part of the Gulfstream Music Education Series

  • Alecia Nugent: concert review

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    Saturday night I took the wife and attended the Alecia Nugent concert in nearby New Castle, Virginia. It should be no surprise that Alecia put on a great show, she's won awards recently from both IBMA and SPBGMA for her

  • Chris Thile & The Tensions Mountain Boys

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    During the course or our interview back in September of 2006, Chris Thile indicated that the How To Grow A Band would eventually become The Tensions Mountain Boys. That metamorphasis is about to occur. Tomorrow, March 17, 2007 The

  • Tony Rice back next week

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    This week was set to be the start of an east coast tour by Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, in support of their Rounder CD, Quartet. Folks checking on these dates have been seeing cancellation notices, mentioning a recent injury

  • Randy Kohrs: Old Photograph

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    Randy Kohrs has scheduled a release party for his new CD, Old Photograph. The party will be held March 21, 2007 at The Tin Roof in Nashville, TN. The CD itself will be released this coming Tuesday, March 13, 2007. The

  • Greg Cahill on IBMA Awards show issues

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    Earlier this week, we published an open letter to the bluegrass community from Rhonda Vincent, in which she voiced a number of concerns she has with the direction she sees IBMA heading with their annual Awards Show. In particular, she

  • Important IBMA deadlines approaching

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    Recent updates on the official IBMA web site list a number of important deadlines to keep in mind. April 16 is the last date to apply for funding from their International Outreach Program, which issues grants to further projects that "foster

  • Rowan/Rice tour dates coming up

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    When we posted in November about the upcoming January '07 release of the new CD from Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, we mentioned that they would tour in support of the project this year. They are about to embark on a

  • Event submissions for EWOB by 3/15

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    The European Bluegrass Blog has a post from Rienk Janssen this morning noting that submissions for the 2007 European World Of Bluegrass Guide must be received by March 15 to be included in the official publication. This would include European bluegrass