Kyle Murphy has been announced as the new fiddler with Jeff Brown & Still Lonesome. He's a native Californian who grew up playing both fiddle and mandolin with his dad and sister in The Murphy Family Band. Murphy came east to study
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Fiddlin’ Miss Kentucky, Ramsey Carpenter
It sounds like a movie script, doesn't it. A beauty queen from the western part of the state wins the Miss Kentucky pageant, playing bluegrass fiddle for her talent competition. But that's just what happened for Ramsey Carpenter when Miss Kentucky
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Suzanna Barnes to Missy Werner Band
Missy Werner has announced the addition of fiddler and vocalist Suzanna Barnes to her band. Like Missy, Suzanna was born and raised in the Cincinnati area, where southern Ohio and northern Kentucky meet. She started a study of music as a very
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Something Old New Borrowed Blue from Megan Lynch Chowning
Megan Lynch Chowning calls her new project, Something Old New Borrowed Blue, a "raw fiddle album." Whatever could that mean? Well it's not un-or-undercooked, bloody or beaten. It turns out that the album is given to unaccompanied fiddle, allowing her to merge her
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Wally Hughes to Commonwealth Bluegrass
Randy Cook & Commonwealth Bluegrass has welcomed fiddler Wally Hughes as an official member of the band. Hughes has been doing some shows with Randy and the gang since they started playing together recently, and Cook is very pleased to have him onboard. "We
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Jamie Harper to Junior Sisk
Well, that didn't take long. Just a few days after coming onboard to fill in, Jamie Harper has been welcomed as the newest member of Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice. Jamie stepped in this past weekend when long time Ramblers Choice
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Billy Hawks leaving Junior Sisk
We have learned that Billy Hawks, fiddler with Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, will be leaving the band after today's performance at MerleFest. Junior says that Jamie Harper will be filling in with the band the rest of this weekend, and
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Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan hit the road
Ask any musicologist about the origins of old time and bluegrass music, and a disquisition on banjo and fiddle music won't be far behind. Particularly in the Appalachian regions where self-sufficient immigrants from the British isles and their descendants tended
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Old-Time Banjo Favorites for Clawhammer Banjo
Dan Levenson has put together a handy tunebook for fans of old time fiddle and banjo music, published by Mel Bay. Though titled Old-Time Favorites for Clawhammer Banjo, the book (with a pair of audio CDs) contains transcriptions of both banjo