The Famous Old Time Music Company, owned and operated by by grassers Vernon and Kitty McIntyre since 1983 in Ohio, has closed its doors. Once serving the acoustic music community in the central US from two locations, providing lessons, repairs,
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Second Street in O’boro to be renamed?
Nashville has its Music Row and Memphis has its Beale Street. Both are instantly recognizable for specific genres of music associated with them —and country and blues, respectively. Now Mayor Ron Payne wants Second Street in downtown Owensboro, Kentucky, to have
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Tracking with The Rigneys and Dark Shadow Recording: Day 2
Producer Stephen Mougin is working in the studio with The Rigney Family Bluegrass Band for their next album this week. Being a harsh taskmaster, he has also prevailed upon the band members to record some of their impressions during the
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Tallgrass Music Festival cancelled
The organizers of the Tallgrass Music Fetsival, formerly known as The Skiatook Bluegrass Festival, has been forced by flooding to cancel this weekend's event. Extreme overflow from Bird Creek following heavy rains this week required the evacuation of the campground this
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More from DelFest 2013
Milo Farineau checks in with a fine gallery of photos from this past weekend's DelFest.
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High honor for Matt Glaser
Violinist Matt Glaser, former chair of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music, has received the Artist Teacher Award from the prestigious American String Teachers Association. Especially notable is the fact that Glaser is the first non-classical instructor to
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More from Gettysburg, Spring 2013
Here are Frank Baker's images from Saturday at the 2013 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
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Dave Adkins at the plate
When the Nashville Regional for the 2013 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship gets underway this weekend, bluegrass singer Dave Adkins will be on deck to perform the National Anthem on Saturday evening. Adkins has made quite a splash this year with
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Tracking with The Rigneys and Dark Shadow Recording: Day 1
Producer Stephen Mougin is working in the studio with The Rigney Family Bluegrass Band for their next album this week. Being a harsh taskmaster, he has also prevailed upon the band members to record some of their impressions during the
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Re-imagining murder ballads in the age of social media
Last week we attempted to blame bluegrass music’s violent side on one man: Little Willie, the Scapegoat, we’ll call him. It works as a theory too, because without all the girlfriendicide (the technical term) committed by Willie, bluegrass songs would