Sammy Shelor gets key to the City of Martinsville
Sammy Shelor, banjoist extraordinaire and leader of the indomitable Lonesome River Band, was surprised last week when he was presented with the Key to the...
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Date line: Raleigh, NC
Date line: Raleigh, NC This is traditionally a short column, written some time in between the IBMA World of Bluegrass keynote address and a showcase I...
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Bluegrass at The Liberty Showcase
Clinch Mountain Boys fiddler Dewey Brown and his wife, Leslie, have purchased a venue in Liberty, NC not far from their home in Burlington. It's...
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The Story Before The Song
Even if I’ve seemed dazed and/or confused by the origins of some of the songs we sing, I was nonetheless thrilled to recently discover a...
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Seven syllables of grass, and The Rebel Soldier
Though I respect people who chose this profession, I’m glad I never became an ethnomusicologist. For one thing, it’s a non-German word with seven syllables...
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Rocky Top comes to Rocky Top, TN
Many readers will remember a story last summer about a successful proposition to change to name of Lake City, a small town in east Tennessee,...
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Bluegrass Museum benefit with Vince Gill and The Time Jumpers
The International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY has been announced as the beneficiary of a gala event at the Owensboro Convention Center on April...
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Red Oak Tree video from Donna Hughes
Donna Hughes has released a music video from her two new albums. That's right... two new albums. Hughes drops a pair of projects today, consisting of...
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Jeff Brown is a Kentucky Colonel
Traditional singer and bandleader Jeff Brown has been awarded an honor especially cherished by bluegrassers. Steven L. Beshear, Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, has inducted Brown...
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Henhouse Prowlers in Mauritania
Henhouse Prowlers have agreed to share occasional reports from the band's African adventure, touring with the American Voices program on behalf of the US Department...
