Author: John Lawless

  • Pass the hat for Annie Nice

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    That's the title of a GoFundMe page set up to benefit Annie Nice, a prominent member of the music community in Raleigh, NC. Bluegrass artists and fans will recognize Annie as the long time manager of Tir Na Nog, an Irish

  • Gene Boyd passes

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    Gene Boyd, known widely as The Fiddling Barber of Bristol, passed away on January 26 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center. He was 88 years of age and had been battling cancer for the past six months. Born in 1927 in

  • Lowe Vintage Instruments robbed

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    A man committed a snatch-and-grab robbery yesterday at Lowe Vintage Instruments in Burlington, NC, getting away with three rare, vintage banjos. The value of the three instruments was placed at just over $16,000. Instruments brokers and pawn dealers in central and western

  • Bridging The Tradition March 19 from LRB

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    Mountain Home Music has announced a March 19 release date for Bridging The Tradition, their upcoming album for Lonesome River Band. The title was chosen as a deliberate reference to the album that put LRB on the map back in 1991.

  • IBMA announces Leadership Bluegrass class for 2016

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    The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the 2016 class for their annual Leadership Bluegrass workshop. Roughly two dozen members of the bluegrass industry are chosen each year to attend a three-day seminar in Nashville designed to help develop leaders in

  • Flatt & Scruggs mural at Bluegrass Island

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    Work continues on the Bluegrass Island store in Manteo, NC ahead of its scheduled opening on March 1. Located across the road from the site where the annual Bluegrass Island festival is located on the beach, the store will serve as

  • Noah Brown to Junior Sisk

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    Junior Sisk has announced Noah Brown as the bass player/tenor singer with his touring band, Rambler's Choice. Noah had just indicated yesterday that he was stepping down from his position playing bass with Ralph Stanley II. Just 19 years old, Brown

  • Studio sneak peek from Feller & Hill

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    No... it's not an early April Fools. It's just Tom Feller of Feller & Hill entertaining himself in the studio while the snow was falling last week. Tom shared this video as a sneak peek of their next single.   OK.... so that's

  • Steve Gulley recovering from surgery

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    While much of the eastern United States had another snow day yesterday, Steve Gulley made a trip to a surgery center to have his gall bladder removed. The surgery had been scheduled in advance and went well. He was able to

  • More changes for Mountain Faith

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    Mountain Faith has announced a couple more changes to their touring configuration. In addition to David Meyer who has recently taken Luke Dotson's place on guitar, the band has brought in David's younger brother, Jimmy Meyer, on second guitar. Chris Wright has