This past weekend, a small group of bluegrass artists and industry professionals met at a rural Bed & Breakfast in Smithville, TN. The purpose of this 4 day retreat was to consider how to best support new artists in bluegrass
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Nathan Stanley – My Kind of Country
Nathan Stanley, grandson of Ralph Stanley and member of his Clinch Mountain Boys, has released a new CD, My Kind of Country. It serves as a showcase for Nathan's voice and musical stylings as he prepares a move into traditional country
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Ricky Skaggs autobiography in the works
Ricky Skaggs' connection to Ralph Stanley is well-documented, from his having worked as a Clinch Mountain Boy in the early 1970s to making a number Stanley songs into country hits in the late 1980s when Skaggs was a Nashville country
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Grascals on Fox & Friends
The Grascals stopped by the Fox & Friends set on Sunday morning to perform music from their new Cracker Barrel CD, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. The album features Nashville's favorite bluegrass group in collaboration
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Sierra Hull at The Kennedy Center
Sierra Hull & Highway 111 was featured in last night's Concerts For Young People By Young People series at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The show was also cybercast live and video of the performance can be seen now
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Thomas and DeLancey concert taping tonight
Tonight (1/21/2011) I'll be heading out to Garnett, KS to tape a concert by Linda Thomas and Dan DeLancey. Dan and Linda are a husband and wife team who perform bluegrass and old-timey music. Linda is a well known hammered
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KFC, wet wipes and The Infamous Stringdusters
Kentucky Fried Chicken - or KFC, as they now prefer to be called - is running a clever online promotion for their new sauceless wings. They invited folks to suggest a video concept for finding new uses for the KFC
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Retired at 35 – with a banjo
The banjo has always had a unique relationship to television. It has showed up in some likely and unlikely places. We enjoyed the appearance of the banjo on The Office last year. Now it's made another showing in a new
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Steep Canyon Rangers celebrate 10 years
Steep Canyon Rangers will mark their 10th Anniversary tomorrow evening (1/21) with a special concert at the Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club near their home in Asheville, NC. Joining them in celebrating this milestone will be artists from
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Virginia Museum of Radio Entertainment launches
The Virginia Museum of Radio Entertainment is a new non-profit organization based in Crewe, Virginia (west of Richmond), at the historic WSVS 800 AM radio station. Its mission is to turn WSVS into a working museum and have it designated