Jerry Douglas is a Bluegrass Star!

JerryDouglas accepts his 2016 Bluegrass Star award from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation - photo by Bob CompereAt this past weekend’s Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival and Chili Cook-Off in Farmers Branch, Texas, Jerry Douglas accepted the 2016 Bluegrass Star Award from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation.

Douglas is the sixth recipient of this annual award, instituted in 2010 to honor artists who advance bluegrass music and bring it to new audiences, while preserving its character and heritage. Previous recipients include Rhonda Vincent, J. D. Crowe, Peter Rowan, Sierra Hull, and Del McCoury.

In presenting the award, Foundation President Alan Tompkins briefly highlighted some of the top achievements of this award-winning reso-guitarist, who has worked with superstars from Alison Krauss to J.D. Crowe, and currently sits atop the bluegrass world with his Earls of Leicester touring show.

“Jerry Douglas has had an incredible lifetime career in bluegrass music spanning the better part of five decades.  He’s holds an incredible 14 GRAMMY awards, a National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, three Musician Of The Year awards from the Country Music Association, and has been an Artist In Residence at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum.”

For more information on the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation and all the fine work they do in Texas to promote our music, visit their web site online.

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