Charlottesville, VA based Rebel Records has linked up with AirPlay Direct, the premiere digital delivery/distribution provider of bluegrass music for worldwide radio. Their agreement will see several back-catalog titles released during the next year. Initially, ten ‘deep catalogue’ recordings have been
Richard Greene is well known as an innovative and influential fiddle player who first attained prominence with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys in 1966. Alongside his musical life Greene has, starting as a young teenager, been obsessed with
On this day .. On April 19, 1976, Country Gazette played at 8th The International Festival of Country Music at the Empire Pool (re-named the Wembley Arena in 1978), Wembley, London. The band consisted of Roger Bush (bass), Alan Munde (banjo), Kenny
Lester Woodie passed away on March 23, 2018, at Lynchburg General Hospital Lynchburg, Virginia. He was 86 years old and had been ailing with Alzheimer’s disease for several years. Lester Gene Woodie was born September 20, 1931, in western North Carolina,
In these days of severe, but necessary, restrictions, we are all looking for ways to relieve the monotony of ground-hog days with little changing, nor prospects of much changing soon. So, responding to a request, the host of Bluegrass Signal
Banjo virtuoso Jimmy Henley passed away on Sunday, March 22, (2020) at his home in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, of throat cancer. He was 56 years of age The diminutive Henley started playing banjo at the age of seven, his earliest performance
Roy Crockett passed away on April 28, 2019, while in the Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House, in Huntington, West Virginia. He was 91 years old. Born, one of 12 children, on May 22, 1927, in Wayne County, West Virginia, he was
Eric Weissberg, banjo player, multi-instrumentalist, and singer passed away on March 22, (2020) in a nursing home near Detroit, Michigan, aged 80. He had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease for many years. Born in New York City on August 16, 1939,
The South Carolina Arts Commission and the and the University of South Carolina McKissick Museum have announced that Kristin Scott Benson is one of the recipients of the 2020 Jean Laney Harris Folk Heritage Awards. Benson had this to say in
Earl Webster, of the Webster brothers’ duet, passed away on April 24, 2018, of natural causes. He was 85 years of age. William Earl Webster, born on March 4, 1933, in Philadelphia, Tennessee, was the guitar player and lead singer in
