The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced today the details for their 2020 Hall of Fame inductions, to be held online next week owing to COVID-19 restrictions. A bumper crop of banjo heavyweights in on tap to enter the
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Till The River Starts To Rise video from Eddie Sanders
Engelhardt Music Group has released a new music video for their current single by Eddie Sanders, Till The River Starts To Rise. The track is one Sanders wrote with Adam Engelhardt, inspired by steering his vehicle into a deluge while on
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Video Premiere: My Drunk Uncle from The Golden Age
And now for something completely different... a premiere of the new music video from The Golden Age, My Drunk Uncle. With The Golden Age, we see the reunion of two bluegrass innovators, Bryan Simpson and Matt Menefee, formerly bandmates in Cadillac Sky
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Applications for 2021 IBMA Foundation grants due December 1
The IBMA Foundation, the philanthropic and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has issued a reminder that applications for their 2021 Project Grants are due by December 1, 2020. Each year, the Foundation awards roughly $14,000 in grants to
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Jerry Douglas launches online reso-guitar lessons
Reso-guitar maestro Jerry Douglas has announced his association with Modern Music Masters to offer online lessons for students of the instrument. Jerry has been heralded as a slide hero since he first arrived on the scene as a young man playing with
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The Bluegrass Special with Wayne Rice cancelled on KSON
Since 1976, bluegrass lovers in San Diego, CA have enjoyed a weekly dose of new and vintage grass on The Bluegrass Special, hosted by Wayne Rice on KSON. The show survived numerous ownership and format changes over these 44 years,
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Can’t Stop Now video from Buddy Jewell
It looks like everyone's getting newgrass fever with New Grass Revival being recently inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Country artist turned bluegrass, Buddy Jewell, has made a new video of his version of a classic from the Revival, Can't
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Step It Up & Go from David Menconi
The University of North Carolina Press has released a new book by David Menconi, Step It Up & Go - The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk. As you
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The Bean Song – Kathy Wigman Lesnock’s journey to Crandall Creek
Kathy Wigman Lesnock was born and reared in a home where country music and singing were as natural as breathing. From those childhood days in rural Pennsylvania, Kathy became a songwriting and vocal force with Crandall Creek. Kathy is the principal
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Video Premiere: Where I Belong from Wood Belly
Things have been on the up for Colorado's Wood Belly since they took first place in the band contest at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in 2018. That was just three years after the formation of the group through a chance