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This remembrance of Levon Helm is a contribution from Happy Traum, co-founder of Homespun Music Instruction. “The first show I remember was Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys on a summer evening in 1946, when I was six years old.

Laura Tate Ridge sent along these photos from the Earl Scruggs tribute, held on stage as part of the Big Lick Festival in Oakboro, NC on April 13.  

Carol Beaugard, long time host of Lonesome Pine RFD on WFDU-AM in the metro New York city market, shared this recounting of a special celebration in New York earlier this month. On April 1, 2012 The Emelin Theatre held a fundraiser

Kelly Stockwell has been back home in Vermont for a week or so, after a Chroma Technology business trip to Japan with her company president Paul Millman. She offers these radom observations on leaping into the breach with a bunch

Laura Greene sent along these photos of Lonesome River Band performing last week at Hope Cafe in Raleigh, NC.

Noted Japanese bluegrass artist Kazuhiro Inaba sent along this video tribute to the late Earl Scruggs. I played “The Scruggs Medley” with my great respect and appreciation for Earl Scruggs last night at Mister Kelly’s in Osaka. Since I started to play

This commemoration of Earl Scruggs comes from Jack Hatfield, who has earned his living teaching Scruggs' music for almost 40 years. His Scruggs Corner columns for Banjo Newsletter are collectors items, as they contained start-to-finish transcriptions from Scruggs recordings, including

This Earl Scruggs tribute is a contribution from avant-garde and jazz banjo pioneer, Ryan Cavanaugh. I was fortunate enough to have a few conversations with our hero Earl Scruggs, and having spent my formative years in an extensive study of his

This remembrance of the great Earl Scruggs comes from former Ricky Skaggs banjo player, celebrated recording artist and avid banjo collector, Jim Mills. First of all, let me say that Earl Scruggs was my all time hero on this earth. He

These remembrances of Earl Scruggs come courtesy of Roland White, who worked for several years as a member of Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt & the Nashville Grass, and later with The Kentucky Colonels (with his