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  • New Randy Kohrs one-take video


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    Randy Kohrs is the subject of a new video shot by Nashville singer, songwriter and filmmaker Marcel Chagnon, who goes simply by Marcel . The video captures a stark, solo performance of the song Shallow Grave from Randy’s Old Photograph CD. This shoot had been planned with the intention of just grabbing ...
    9 hours ago
  • Allen Shelton remembered


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 – November 21, 2009 As already reported , banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He was 73. Initially he had been ...
    10 hours ago
  • Have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving


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    The national day of Thanksgiving has nearly arrived. According to Wikipedia, the holiday was started as a harvest festival, to give thanks for nature’s bounty and to express gratitude in general. “Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends,” Wikipedia states. ...
    10 hours ago
  • Good Home Grown Music News: The abridged version


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    "Who Shot Lester Monroe" Blue Circle Records Miss Dixie Hall writes a darn good e-newsletter that she always shares with BluegrassJournal.com. Her latest Good Home Grown Music News (it’s Volume 6) is full of good tidbits. Here’s an abridged look at some of them. Melvin Goins is having his third annual ...
    11 hours ago
  • Bluegrass Museum to host Bluegrass Boys reunion during ROMP


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    Owensboro, Ky. — The International Bluegrass Music Museum will host a gathering of all living Blue Grass Boys who played with Bill Monroe as part of the Pioneers of Bluegrass Reunion held during its River of Music Party ( ROMP ) in June. This will be the third annual reunion event, but the first to include ...
    11 hours ago
  • ETSU announces Major in Bluegrass, Old time and country music


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    East Tennesse State University , long known in the bluegrass realm for the quality of musicians that come through its music program, is now making a new inroad in the education and music fields. Located in Johnson City, Tenn., ETSU has introduced a new major studies program that will yield a bachelor of arts degree ...
    11 hours ago
  • Dolly Parton opens retail store in Nashville


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    Nashville, Tenn., — Dolly Parton will share her treasures when her Dolly Parton’s Trinkets & Treasures store opens this week in Nashville. Located in an old storefront on 2nd Ave. in historic downtown, the 1000 square-foot space reflects Dolly’s “Coat of Many Colors” influence with a mix of pink, ...
    1 day ago
  • Bluegrass Museum initiates Ambassadors Program


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    The  International Bluegrass Music Museum , in Owensboro, KY, has recently announced a new initiative to increase awareness and participation in Museum events and news among local bluegrass associations around the country. The new program is being billed as the  Bluegrass Museum Ambassadors Program . To ...
    1 day ago
  • Bluegrass Musueum to present Jubilee bluegrass video series during “Holiday Stroll”


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    Owensboro, KY — The International Bluegrass Music Museum will present an evening of  Bluegrass music as video-taped for KET’s “Jubilee” series on public television. The special presentation will happen on Saturday, December 12 beginning at 5:00 p.m. as part of downtown Owensboro’s “Holiday Stroll” ...
    1 day ago
  • Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike holiday concert at International Bluegrass Music Museum


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    Valerie Smith Owensboro, KY — Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike will be giving the International Bluegrass Music Museum an early holiday present—a concert benefiting the museum on December 10th at 7:00 p.m. “We love spreading the joy and meaning behind the Christmas season in song,” Smith says. “We ...
    1 day ago
  • Highwoods String Band reissued


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    Rounder Records has recently re-released a classic album from 1973, Fire On The Mountain by Highwoods String Band. This LP, and the band that recorded it, had a powerful impact on the early ’70s old time scene, helping to transform it from a somber, preservationist mindset to a raucous, joyful celebration of the ...
    1 day ago
  • Songwriter Profile – Becky Buller


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might want to consider, please contact us . Becky Buller was born in St. James, Minnesota. At the age of 10, she enrolled in some Suzuki method violin classes and began performing with her ...
    1 day ago
  • Ricky Skaggs asks for a Christmas gift


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    But not for him… Ricky Skaggs has recently joined with World Vision to help sponsor children living amidst dire poverty in undeveloped countries. In the true spirit of Christmas, he is asking his many fans and friends to consider partnering with World Vision to do the same. He has offered to send a free copy ...
    1 day ago
  • Damn Good Merican Music


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  • Larry Stephenson under the knife


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    Larry Stephenson will be spending his Thanksgiving week learning how to eat left-handed. He recently underwent surgery to deal with a nagging problem which he is hoping will now be resolved, taking him out of action for several weeks. We’ll let Larry tell the tale… “I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right ...
    2 days ago
  • Gibson bluegrass not affected by Fish & Wildlife raids


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    Last week, much of the music world was abuzz about the news that Gibson Guitar’s solid body electric guitar plant, and their corporate headquarters in Nashville, were visited by agents from the US Fish & Wildlife Service last Tuesday (11/17). A search warrant was served and agents spent several hours on site, ...
    2 days ago
  • Get folked up


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    Starting last Saturday and finishing this coming Saturday is the first ever Liverpool Folk and Roots Festival which has been lovingly put together by the wonderful Random Family  who also run the regular Family Folk Up nights at St.Brides Church. Im going to be out filming/photographing some of the events later in ...
    2 days ago
  • Changes for Special C in 2010


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    We heard this morning from Greg Cahill, banjo player, founder and leader of Special Consensus – Special C to their close friends. Greg also serves as the Board Chair of the International Bluegrass Music Association . He sent along word of some changes in the band lineup for next year, as well as a number of ...
    2 days ago
  • Big Hillbilly Bluegrass will tour Africa


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    Bob Perilla’s Big Hillbilly Bluegrass , a musical ensemble based in Washington, DC, has been chosen by the U.S. State Department for a month-long tour to five African countries as musical and cultural ambassadors. The band will visit Mauritania, Togo, Benin, the Republic of Congo, and the Central African Republic ...
    2 days ago
  • Video report from The Infamous Stringdusters


    The Bluegrass BlogAuthority Authority: 526
    Chris Pandolfi has released the first of what we presume will be several videos from The Infamous Stringdusters’ recently-concluded tour of the Northeastern US. It follows the guys on the road, on the stage and in the van. Great fun…
    2 days ago

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