The Gina Furtado Project is reaching all the way back to the beginnings of bluegrass with their new single, True Life Blues, one written by Bill Monroe, which he cut in 1945. Bluegrass fans know Gina from her stint on banjo
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I Just Telephone Upstairs from Gina Furtado
Gina Furtado's latest single from Mountain Home Music finds her in a different sort of environment. Setting aside her banjo for this song, I Just Telephone Upstairs, Furtado instead leads her sisters Malia and Lu in a vocal-heavy Gospel arrangement,
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Track Premiere: Not That Far Along from Bluegrass at the Crossroads
Mountain Home Music Company has released another single from their compilation project, Bluegrass at the Crossroads. Their concept for this album has been to match artists from both the traditional and more contemporary bluegrass communities, in many cases who have
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Track Premiere: Gone from The Gina Furtado Project
Mountain Home Music Company has another new single release this week, one for The Gina Furtado Project called Gone. Gina has been a popular figure in bluegrass circles this past few years. Though she had been playing and teaching in northern
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Track Premiere: Alley Cat from Gina Furtado Project
Today we have another single from the upcoming Mountain Home release from The Gina Furtado Project, a fun little song about being captivated by something you know you don't really want. Gina wrote and sings Alley Cat about an encounter with a
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The Things I Saw video from The Gina Furtado Project
The Gina Furtado Project has released a socially-distanced music video for their latest Mountain Home Music single, The Things I Saw. This track has a much grittier sound and feel than much of the music on Furtado's previous release, set to
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The Things I Saw from The Gina Furtado Project
Following on two successful solo projects and four years on the road with Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, banjoist Gina Furtado has a new single release to share from an upcoming album. The Things I Saw, recorded with her touring
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8th annual California Banjo Extravaganza starts this week
The 2019 California Banjo Extravaganza is set to kick off tomorrow in Paradise, CA. The annual tour is managed by banjoist Bill Evans, who each year tours up and down the state for several days with two other top banjo players
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Track Premiere: Airplane Ride from Gina Furtado
Mountain Home Music has released a single this week from Gina Furtado, one of the songs from her upcoming album, I Hope You Have A Good Life. The new record drops on September 27, but the single, Airplane Ride, is
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Gina Furtado interview now available on line
Gina Furtado - photo by Scott Mason, The Winchester Star Gina Furtado is the latest banjo player to be memorialized by Bud Bennett at Radford University in his video oral history project of prominent 5-stringers. Billed as Banjo Masters, his previous