Here's some good news on the live music front. Song of the Mountains, the nationally syndicated bluegrass television concert series, will return to taping before a live audience later this month. Nine months after being shut down by COVID-19 restrictions, the producers
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A Springer Mountain Farms Christmas with Dailey & Vincent
Dailey & Vincent have announced the schedule for their annual Christmas shows, with four new episodes to be aired this month on the Circle network and RFD-TV. The first episode of the 2020 edition of A Springer Mountain Farms Christmas, featuring Dailey
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Opry celebrates 75 years of bluegrass music
The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville celebrated the 75th anniversary of bluegrass music Saturday, marking the night in December 1945 when Earl Scruggs appeared for his debut on the Opry with Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys, igniting the
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Sturgill Simpson does bluegrass on The Late Show
Last night, Sturgill Simpson took his new grassified sound to television, appearing on the November 10 edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. He was on to promote his latest release, Cuttin' Grass, Vol 1 - The Butcher
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As Y’all Like It from Aaron Bibelhauser and Kentucky Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's seminal works of English literature still resonate with readers and theatergoers more than 400 years after his death. Translated into every imaginable language and reframed into countless new settings, Shakespeare's plays find new audiences every year all over
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Gary Brewer & Sons make Louisville TV
Earlier this week, Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers were interviewed on Louisville TV channel 11 WHAS. The occasion for their appearance on the Great Day Live program was the recent release of Gary's 40th Anniversary Collection album, which finds him
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Darin & Brooke Aldridge on the Circle Network tonight
Darin & Brooke Aldridge, America's bluegrass singing sweethearts, will be appearing tonight on Circle Sessions at Home, a new show on the Circle Network which visits artists at home to see what they are up too while touring is prohibited. Their
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Moments in Bluegrass BG75 #7 – Foggy Mountain Boys on TV
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75 years of bluegrass”, we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Beginning in February 1981 when
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Appalachian Road Show do the Huckabee Show
This past Saturday, Appalachian Road Show visited the Huckabee Show, broadcast weekly on the Trinity Broadcast Network. There they performed a pair of songs they have recorded, and banjo man Barry Abernathy and his family talked with host Mike Huckabee
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Billy Strings on Jimmy Kimmel, live from the Station Inn
Last night Billy Strings was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC television. Everyone's favorite head banging grasser contributed two songs on the show, a socially-distanced home recording of Watch It Fall, and a live version of Taking Water