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  • For No One from the Drifters

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    Here's the latest episode in The Farewell Drifters' video track-by-track series, created to introduce the music from their upcoming CD, Yellow Tag Mondays. Last week I accused them of a Beatlesque flair in their original song, Sunnyside Drive, and looky here...

  • IBMM joins Blue Star Museums

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    If you checked in with your local news last night or this morning, you may have seen information about Blue Star Museums, a joint initiative of Blue Star Families and the National Endowment for the Arts to offer free admission

  • Doyle Lawson interview at Mandolin Cafe

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    Mandolin Cafe has a new interview up with Doyle Lawson, which is unique in two particular ways. First off, the questions came from members and readers of the site who, secondly, are mandolinists themselves, giving the interview a tone of musical

  • Grascals on Mountain Stage

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    The Grascals were among the guests on Mountain Stage earlier this month, and the audio can be streamed online from the NPR web site. The 34 minute segment includes a number of songs from their latest CD, The Famous Lefty

  • German Bluegrass Music Association

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    As the popularity of bluegrass music continues to grow around the world, a new bluegrass association has taken shape in Germany. The German Bluegrass Music Association (GBMA) was publicly launched during the 8th International Bluegrass Festival in Bühl -Baden, on May

  • EWOB 2010 – Award Winners

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    More news from Europe today. The European World of Bluegrass recently concluded, and this years award winners have been announced. The awards are given in two different ways. First, the musicians performing at the event vote to elect from among their

  • Fiddle from Vivian Wagner

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    Vivian Wagner teaches journalism at the Muskingum University in Ohio, where she also directs the school's interdisciplinary journalism program. She is also a widely published freelance writer, whose work has appeared in a variety of journals, Bluegrass Unlimited among them. In

  • Sunnyside Drive from The Farewell Drifters

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    Here is the third video preview from Yellow Tag Mondays, the upcoming album by The Farewell Drifters. This time, it's Sunnyside Drive, an autobiographical sketch from the musical brothers Britt (Joshua and Clayton). The song is yet another relentlessly cheerful Drifters

  • Upcoming Bluegrass Radio Events

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    There are a number of bluegrass radio events taking place in the next few days worth mentioning. Thursday - May 20,2010 Frank Solivan will be live on air with WAMU's Lee Michael Demsey. The show begins at 10 AM. Listeners will be