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Kenny Baker

  • Track Premiere: Ducks on the Millpond from Carley Arrowood

    February 17, 2021 | by John Lawless

    We've featured a couple of new tracks from Carley Arrowood, the talented young bluegrass singer and songwriter from North Carolina whose first album from Mountain Home Music is expected later this year. These songs have highlighted Carley's skills as a

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  • Moments in Bluegrass: BG75 #12 – Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe

    December 15, 2020 | by Richard Thompson

    Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from "75 years of bluegrass," we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Aynsley Porchak, from Woodstock, Ontario,

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  • Aynsley Plays Kenny returns tomorrow

    December 31, 2019 | by John Lawless

    This past summer Aynsley Porchak, the super talented fiddler with Carolina Blue, came up with a great idea for a social media promotion. A devoted student of Kenny Baker, Porchak set out to record and post a video of her

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  • Aynsley Plays Kenny on social media in July

    July 2, 2019 | by John Lawless

    We've enthused several times about Aynsley Porchak, the talented young fiddler with Carolina Blue. This recent graduate of the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University is an Ontario native, and a professional performer, who won both the US and

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  • Kenny Baker featured on mural in Jenkins, KY

    November 28, 2017 | by John Lawless

    Folks in Letcher County, KY are mighty proud of Kenny Baker, and all the music he made over his life. Kenny spent more than two dozen years playing fiddle with Bill Monroe, and several more performing with Josh Graves after

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  • Jerusalem Ridge video from the O’Connors

    July 24, 2015 | by John Lawless

    Mark and Maggie O'Connor have released a second video from their upcoming Duo CD, Mark's arrangement of the classic Bill Monroe tune, Jerusalem Ridge. This is one that bluegrass fans know well, though Mark refers to it in his notes as Jerusalem’s

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  • Noam Plays Kenny Plays Bill… oh my!

    October 17, 2013 | by John Lawless

    You don't have to be a banjo or fiddle nerd to love Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe, but if you are... oh my! One of the most admired five stringers in the world these days, noted for his

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  • Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe

    August 13, 2013 | by John Lawless

    Say that three times fast... Compass Records has just announced the October 1 release of a new solo project from Punch Bothers banjoist Noam Pikelny. And it's quite a departure from his prior album, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail,

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  • Making History with The Pioneers of Bluegrass

    July 25, 2013 | by John Lawless

    July 22 marked the official release date for Making History with The Pioneers of Bluegrass, a documentary film 11 years in the making. The project was spearheaded by bluegrass artist James Reams, who dedicates the film to his late and

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  • Making History with Pioneers of Bluegrass

    August 30, 2012 | by John Lawless

    Wouldn't it be fun to sit down with a few first or second generation bluegrass artists, and listen to their stories of the old days? I've been fortunate to have a few opportunities to do so, and I never miss a

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