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This review of a new bluegrass on the beach festival in North Carolina is a contribution from Carmen Evans, a life-long music lover in Norfolk, VA. Photos are courtesy of Woody Edwards and Rhonda Vincent. One usually thinks of a bluegrass festival being held in the country or the mountains, but at the Outer Banks [...]
Occurring in tandem with the IBMA's Fan Fest last month in Nashville was the 2012 Grand Master Fiddle Championship, held in the hotel connected to the convention center. The venerable contest has been running since 1972, when it was first established as an invitational fiddle challenge for the Grand Ole Opry. It was held at [...]
Today marks the official release of Calm Before The Storm, the first Mountain Fever album from Alabama's Delta Reign. To celebrate, the band will be hosting a CD release party and concert tonight at the Shed BBQ & Blues Joint in their home town of Mobile. It will be broadcast live by 92 ZEW, and streamed online [...]
This has been an eventful year for young Brandy Miller. The 14 year old banjo picker's debut CD, BrandyGrass, was released in May, and in June, she ventured to Nashville to record for the next Daughters of Bluegrass project, Pickin' Like A Girl. In August she took top banjo honors at the Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, and during [...]
From Boston's Three Tall Pines comes a new music video, shot live in the campground at this summer's Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival in New York. Tire Chains is among the songs included on their most recent album, All That's Left, released in 2011, and is performed on the video by the current band members with Avi Salloway on [...]
