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  • Dan Tyminski given Bluegrass Star Award by Bluegrass Heritage Foundation

    October 28, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Earlier this month, at the Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival in Farmers Branch, TX, Dan Tyminski was honored with the Bluegrass Star Award from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation. The award is given annually to an artist whose body of work respects the

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  • Bluegrass Heritage Foundation announces NC State Championship

    June 7, 2021 | by John Lawless

    The Bluegrass Heritage Foundation has announced the launch of a new contest festival in Kernersville, NC with the winners pre-registered for the Walnut Valley National Championship competition in Winfield, KS. Billed as the North Carolina State Championships for banjo, mandolin, and

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  • Bobby Osborne presented with Bluegrass Star Award

    October 25, 2018 | by Guest Contributor

    A version of this article has appeared on the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation web site. Bobby Osborne, a veteran bluegrass musician and Grammy-nominated member of the Grand Ole Opry, has been honored with the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation’s Bluegrass Star Award. It was

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  • Bluegrass Heritage Foundation gets Riley Gilbreath a new Huber banjo

    December 28, 2017 | by John Lawless

    The Bluegrass Heritage Foundation is a volunteer organization in Texas which serves to promote and support bluegrass music in the state. They are also involved in the annual Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cook-Off each fall, and also manage a program to

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  • Jerry Douglas is a Bluegrass Star!

    October 19, 2016 | by John Lawless

    At 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

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  • Del McCoury awarded Bluegrass Star from Bluegrass Heritage

    October 22, 2015 | by John Lawless

    At last weekend's Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival and Chili Cook-Off in Texas, Del McCoury was presented with the Bluegrass Star Award from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation. Since 2010, the Foundation has presented this award to a bluegrass artist who exemplifies contemporary bluegrass, and

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  • Bluegrass Heritage sends a kid to camp

    May 9, 2014 | by John Lawless

    Young Liam Purcell was the recipient of a music scholarship from the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation's Play It Forward program, allowing him to attend the Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy during last weekend's Five String Fest in North Carolina. Liam lives in nearby Deep

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  • Huber banjo auction to benefit Play It Forward

    August 2, 2013 | by John Lawless

    We've written before about the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation and their instrument lending program for young pickers, Play It Forward. Bluegrass students aged 8-16 can have access to quality banjos, fiddles, mandolins or guitars for renewable one year loans at no

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  • Scholarships available to Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy

    April 1, 2013 | by John Lawless

    The Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy has been held since 2004 in a beautiful mountain retreat near Gatlinburg, TN, hosted by noted banjo instructor and author, Jack Hatfield. The event is an outgrowth of the Maryland Banjo Academy, formerly operated by

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  • Brandy Miller and her new Huber banjo

    October 9, 2012 | by John Lawless

    This has been an eventful year for young Brandy Miller. The 14 year old banjo picker's debut CD, BrandyGrass, was released in May, and in June, she ventured to Nashville to record for the next Daughters of Bluegrass project, Pickin' Like

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