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Festivals have their moments - times when schedules and inspirations align and bluegrass magic is the result. One of these moments happened during the "Nightgrass" set of Greensky Bluegrass at the 40th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. Throughout the early and mid-2000s, Greensky Bluegrass Dobro player, Anders Beck, was a part of a band that has [...]
Well, summer is here, although bluegrass fans know summer starts when you attend your first outdoor bluegrass festival of the season. (You know I'm right!) According to Mother Nature though, today is officially the first day of summer. Unless you're a snowbird who thumbs his nose at nature and spends the winter in Florida, you're [...]
Harper Collins is set to release Kentucky Traveler - My Life In Music, an autobiography by Ricky Skaggs with Eddie Dean, on August 13. The publishers promise an intimate look into the life and 40 year musical of this iconic performer. It follows Skaggs from a hardscrabble youth in eastern Kentucky to fame and fortune [...]
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a report on last weekend's Virginia Mountain Music Festival. [jwplayer config="bgtnwm" mediaid="53271"]
This report and photo gallery from the Wayne Henderson Festival in Mouth of Wilson, VA comes from Andy Garrigue. The festival is part stage show and part guitar competition, with the winner receiving a custom Wayne Henderson guitar. Proceeds from the one-day event go towards scholarships for young musicians. $17,000 in grants were awarded this [...]
Most bands practicing old time music these days fall into one of two categories: strict traditionalists, whose albums sound as if they could have been recorded at the Bristol Sessions, and those who take the stripped down sound of the old time style and add in more modern touches from other genres. With their latest [...]
