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To honor the life and music of the great Kenny Baker, Matt Glaser organized a special tribute at the Grey Fox Festival earlier this month. Billed as the Kenny Baker Grey Fox Memorial Orchestra, it featured what appears to be nine

Dailey & Vincent fiddler Jesse Stockman is on the disabled list for a few weeks, having recently aggravated an earlier wrist injury. His doctor has ordered him off the fiddle until things heal up properly, taking him off the road

AcuTab has released a new fiddle DVD from Ron Stewart, in which Ron takes a careful look at seven of the influential bowmen who helped shaped what we know today as bluegrass fiddle. The Fiddlers of Flatt & Scruggs runs just

Bill Monroe played with some fine fiddlers over the decades – Chubby Wise, Vassar Clements and Bobby Hicks, for starters. But for his 1972 tribute to Pendleton Vandiver, there was only one real choice to play the fiddle tunes that

Kenny Baker, perhaps the most celebrated fiddler in the history of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, died today at 1:30 p.m. (EDT) in Nashville, after suffering a stroke earlier this week. He was 85 years of age. For at least two

We have learned that Kenny Baker has suffered a stroke and is hospitalized. He celebrated his 85th birthday on June 26. Baker, whom Bill Monroe always introduced as "the greatest fiddler in bluegrass music," first joined the Blue Grass Boys in

We have learned of the passing of Benton Flippen earlier this week. He died on Tuesday (June 28) at the age of 90. Flippen was a noted old time fiddler and banjo player in the north central area of North Carolina,

Do you live in the middle of nowhere and can’t find a bluegrass teacher? Or work strange hours and need to take lessons at odd times? With the ArtistWorks Academy of Bluegrass, it’s now possible to improve as a picker,

In the past we have reported about Jan Johansson’s poor health. We are delighted to note that Swedish fiddle player, now living in Cary, North Carolina, Jan Johansson had a heart transplant at the Chapel Hill Medical Center, on March

One of the more successful recent entries in the online world of string music instruction has been the Tony Trischka School of Banjo. Using a combination of prerecorded lessons and video exchanges between Tony and his many enrolled students, the