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  • Colorado Music Hall of Fame honors bluegrass legends

    November 2, 2021 | by John Lawless

    The Colorado Music Hall of Fame in Morrison, CO, has announced their 2021 class of inductees, honoring the huge contributions the state has made to bluegrass and jamgrass music. Selected for induction this year are The String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon,

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  • Charles Sawtelle Memorial Bench rededication – July 27, 2021

    August 12, 2021 | by Dave Berry

    Last month, Dave Berry shared a lovely story about the Memorial Bench in Boulder, CO erected to honor the life and music of original Hot Rize guitarist, Charles Sawtelle, who passed away after a bout with cancer in 1999. The

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  • Charles Sawtelle Memorial Bench gets a much needed tidying up

    July 26, 2021 | by Dave Berry

    A local San Francisco Bay Area pickin' buddy friend, Scott Dailey, from the Stoney Mountain Ramblers, reached out to me about a project he initiated to spruce up the Charles Sawtelle Memorial Bench in Boulder, Colorado. The original bench was

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  • Looking back to the first Hot Rize visit to France in 1980

    May 14, 2021 | by Guest Contributor

    This look back to the first time Hot Rize visited France in 1980 comes in three parts. First we have the recollections of Charley Sifaqui, a French journalist, banjo picker, and bluegrass lover who had the honor of accompanying the

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  • Nick Forster talks 40 years of Hot Rize

    August 6, 2018 | by Lee Zimmerman

    Photo of Nick Forster by Ted Lehmann “It wasn’t that we had this great design where it was like “oh man, we’re going to put together a band and it will last 40 years. We were young and it was an

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  • Nick Forster of Hot Rize injured in a bicycle accident

    July 22, 2018 | by John Lawless

    Hot Rize fans were surprised this weekend at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival to see the band perform without bass player and vocalist Nick Forster in tow. According to our people at the festival, Nick was injured earlier this week while

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  • Hot Rize to host 2018 IBMA Awards

    June 20, 2018 | by John Lawless

    The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced today that Hot Rize will host the 2018 International Bluegrass Music Awards show on September 27. The gala program will be held at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in Raleigh,

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  • Hot Rize reaches 40 years of age

    January 10, 2018 | by Richard Thompson

    January 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of Hot Rize's first gigs, in Boulder, Colorado back in 1978.   Often called America's Bluegrass Band, Hot Rize has always balanced innovation with tradition to create their own style of bluegrass music. Perhaps the most

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  • More from Gettysburg, August 2016

    August 24, 2016 | by Frank Baker

    Here's Frank Baker's second gallery of images from the August 2016 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. More to come!

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  • Mike Scap passes

    April 4, 2016 | by John Lawless

    Mike Scap, a noted guitarist, mandolinist, and fiddler in the 1980s, passed away in Springfield, New Jersey on March 29. He was 60 years of age, and had been suffering from lung cancer. Close followers of the Colorado bluegrass scene knew

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