Bluegrass At Large

  • Dr. Tom Bibey’s newest challenge

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    When Tom Bibey’s CD of mandolin duets with Darin Aldridge comes out, pay special attention to the opening track, Amazing Grace. It won’t have the polish of a studio recording, but it will have more than enough raw emotion and

  • Red Wine Bluegrass Party

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    We received a note on Monday from Richard Hawkins, who reports for both the Bluegrass Ireland Blog and the European Bluegrass Blog. He wanted to let us know about the terrific photo-essay he recently published, covering the 3rd annual Red Wine

  • Béla at Bowdoin

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    Special thanks to Doug Boxer-Cook, Director of News and Media Relations at Bowdoin College, for sending along these photos of Béla Fleck accepting his honorary Doctor of Music degree during the 2011 Commencement Ceremony at the college. Béla was introduced by

  • Congratulations Skip and Stephanie

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    Yesterday, two powerful bluegrass families were united by marriage. Skip Cherryholmes and Stephanie Dilling were married on Friday (May 27) in North Carolina. Skip was a member of Cherryholmes from the day they started to their final show earlier this month,

  • Special C European tour winding down

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    Here's another update from Greg Cahill on the 2011 Special Consensus European tour. We only had 2 hours sleep when we were shuttled to the airport in Oslo to catch the plane to Copenhagen on Wednesday. We were on time (after