Author: Brance

  • Grascals to open for Brooks & Dunn

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    The Grascals have been invited by country supergroup Brooks & Dunn to open their sold-out show at New York"s Irving Plaza on Thursday, November 10. This show is part of the Country Takes New York festivities leading up to the

  • Barry Scott leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver

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    Thanks to Cindy Baucom for this piece of news: Barry Scott will be leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at the end of this year. Barry has been singing, and playing bass, with Doyle for nine years this Thanksgiving. While he has

  • Bluegrass Japan Blog

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    I've been just a little bit obsessed with podcasts recently. As I was wondering around the internet over the weekend I discovered another bluegrass blogger who had a podcast. Nino is the guy's name and Bluegrass Japan is his blog.

  • Poppy Mountain Bluegrass on DVD

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    A DVD highlighting the 2005 Poppy Mountain Bluegrass festival is now available from Keepsake Video Productions. The DVD disc is entitled The Poppy Experience. Not having seen the disc, we can't really comment of the content or the quality of

  • Out Wickenburg Way

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    Out Wickenburg Way is an annual bluegrass festival and fiddle championship held in Wickenburg, AZ. This year's event takes place on November 11, 12, & 13, 2005. The Four Corner States Bluegrass Festival is sponsored by the Wickenburg Chamber of Commerce,

  • Stolen Instruments Recovered

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    We previously posted about the instruments stolen from the home of Gena Britt - Tew. Gena just wrote in with the great news that the instruments have been recovered and returned. Here's her email. My instruments were recovered! Yeah!! I got

  • New podcast! – The GrassCast

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    Bluegrass Today podcast we started a while back has been moved. It was originally intended only to be an occasional podcast when we had something of interest to share. It is now a weekly podcast that has been titled The

  • STOLEN: Red Diamond A style mandolin

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    Megan Lynch wrote in to tell us about a stolen instrument alert. It seems the house shared by 3 members of the California based Donner Mountain Bluegrass Band was broken into recently and quite a bit of stuff was stolen.

  • Phil Leadbetter says “Thank You”

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    Most of you who are IBMA members probably received this via email a day or two ago, but we felt it was worth publishing here. To the IBMA, I would like to thank you for the two awards that I received