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Kristin Scott Benson

  • Let’s talk with Kristin Scott Benson

    December 1, 2022 | by Pamm Tucker

    If you mention Kristin Scott Benson, you will nod your head and say, “She is the five time IBMA Banjo Player of the year. She plays with the Grascals.” And you'd be right, but she's so much more than that. I

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  • Red Mountain Wine from Benson

    October 20, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mountain Home Music has released another track from their upcoming duo project for Benson, the husband and wife team of Wayne Benson and Kristin Scott Benson. Both perform regularly with top touring acts in bluegrass, Kristin on banjo with The

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  • Kristin Scott Benson latest Deering Banjos endorser

    July 19, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Kristin Scott Benson, award-winning banjo picker with bluegrass touring group The Grascals, has been announced as the newest endorser of Deering Banjos. Given the distance between the Deering facility in California and Kristin's home in South Carolina, the two used long

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  • Track Premiere: What Kind of Fool Are You from Benson

    June 16, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Tomorrow is the release day for a new Mountain Home Music single from Benson, the husband-and-wife duo of mandolinist Wayne Benson of IIIrd Tyme Out and banjoist Kristin Scott Benson of The Grascals. Despite a marriage of many years between two

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  • Track Premiere: Oh Me Of Little Faith from the Bensons

    April 14, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Mountain Home Music has a new single this week from Benson, the husband-and-wife duo of Wayne and Kristin Scott Benson. She is the five-time IBMA Banjo Player of the Year who picks with The Grascals, and he is the award-winning

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  • My Favorite J.D. Crowe lick – Kristin Scott Benson

    April 5, 2022 | by Guest Contributor

    This is a feature we are running to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just before Christmas. We are calling it My Favorite Crowe Lick, and each episode will include a prominent

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  • The Bensons discuss Benson, and their first single, Conway

    February 24, 2022 | by Sandy Hatley

    After 20 plus years of marriage, Kristin Scott Benson, award winning banjoist with The Grascals, and Wayne Benson, longtime mandolinist with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, have finally recorded some music together. The name they perform under is appropriately

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  • Applications open for Béla Fleck’s 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp

    January 6, 2022 | by John Lawless

    Applications are now being accepted to attend the 2022 Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, founded and curated by Béla Fleck. This year's camp will be held August 17-21 in Brevard, NC. Fleck will be teaching during the camp, alongside his hand-picked faculty

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  • Bluegrass banjo backup with Ron Block, Kristin Scott Benson, and Bill Evans

    September 23, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Most everyone who has studied bluegrass banjo will say that one of the most demanding aspects of mastering the style is learning the many ways to back up a vocalist or another instrumentalist in a band setting. Earl Scruggs, of

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  • 15 year old Gibson Davis subs for Kristin Scott Benson with The Grascals

    September 17, 2021 | by John Lawless

    Kristin Scott Benson laid her dad, Fred Scott, 84, of Union, SC, to rest this past weekend. One thing that she didn't have to worry over was the shows that she would be missing with her band, The Grascals. Band

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