Jake Workman & Friends with their Collings Guitars at IBMA Bluegrass Live! During Bluegrass Live! on Saturday at IBMA, Collings Guitars presented Jake Workman & Friends on the Workshop Stage in the Raleigh Convention Center. It was a high-level bluegrass showcase
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Touchstone Country Boy models from Bourgeois Guitars
Bourgeois Guitars has introduced two new models as part of their continuing collaboration with the Eastman Music Company and their manufacturing facilities in Bazhou, China. This partnership allows the company to offer hand-crafted, solid wood guitars, designed by Dana Bourgeois,
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Marc Roy passes
Popular Ontario bluegrass artist Marc Roy has died. He passed quite suddenly on July 25 at 39 years of age. No cause of death has been shared by his family. Marc's participation in noted groups like Hard Ryde and Backcountry, plus
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Picking For The Prize competition to debut at World of Bluegrass ’23
The International Bluegrass Music Association is teaming up with Martin Guitar and online guitar instructor Marcel Ardans to bring a new guitar picking contest to this year's World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC. Entitled Picking for the Prize, the competition will
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Scott Napier seeks eligible youth for guitar donation
Scott Napier accepting a new Alvarez AD-60 from Todd Yates Scott Napier is doing it again…connecting a deserving youth with a new musical instrument. A couple months ago, he presented one of his young music students a guitar donated by one
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Bourgeois Guitars wins major award
The Bourgeois Guitars company has been building handmade acoustic instruments in Maine for the past 50 years. Founder Dana Bourgeois, a native Mainer, is recognized worldwide as a luthier of the highest order, and his company has built quite a
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On This Day #69: Doc Watson at the Boone Fiddlers Convention
On this day…. On July 4, 1941, 18-year-old Arthel Lane 'Doc' Watson (March 3, 1923 – May 29, 2012) played at the Boone Fiddlers Convention at the Appalachian State Teacher's College (now known as Appalachian State University), in Boone, North Carolina.
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John Miller, consummate sideman, passes
John Miller could do just about anything when it came to bluegrass. He played guitar, mandolin, and upright bass. He sang lead and harmony parts. He arranged, produced, and wrote. And much of the time he did it while fighting cancer
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Margarette Falls from new Tim Stafford guitar album
The history of bluegrass music is often filled with stories of artists who bounce from band to band, contributing mightily and then moving on. But for Tim Stafford, staying put has been the story of his career. Nearly 30 years
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Next Rodeo video drops for Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
No matter which way she ended up going, the bluegrass world would have always regarded Molly Tuttle as part of our community. We watched her grow up in her family band - initially as a banjo player - and ultimately