Bluegrass At Large

  • Dancing at Bluegrass Festivals

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    I've just posted a piece on my blog about Dancing at Bluegrass Festivals. I've written in the past about how others' dancing has disrupted our enjoyment of the festival experience. This piece offers a reappraisal of my earlier

  • Operation Happy Note

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    Operation Happy Note was started after music store owners Steve and Barb Baker saw their son deployed to Iraq. They sent him a guitar and soon a buddy of his wanted one as well. Steve and Barb decided to find

  • Shane Blackwell Joins Anita Fisher Band

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    Shane Blackwell is the newest member of The Anita Fisher Band. Shane will play his first show with the group next weekend at Everett's Barn in Suwanee, Georgia. Shane previously played with Marty Raybon and Full Circle and the Larry

  • Dutch radio CD request

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    We received a note from Marcel Hanson, who works with a local radio and TV station in Holland. They include a variety of country and American type music, including bluegrass and folk. Many US artists and labels are reluctant to ship

  • Infamous String Dusters in the Black Swamp

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    If you will be in the NW Ohio or SE Michigan area this weekend, you may be interested in checking out the 15th Annual Black Swamp Arts Festival, which is being held in Bowling Green, Ohio on September 7th, 8th

  • Wechter Plek setup video

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    We had posted late last year about Wechter Guitars and their newly installed Plek Pro fret dressing machine. This German made, computer-assisted contraption scans the neck while the instrument is strung up to pitch, and creates a detailed, three dimension

  • Banjo improvisation DVD from Jayme Stone

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    Jayme Stone is a banjo player who has defied a great many of the expectations associated with the instrument. His music mixes the 3 finger style passed to him from the bluegrass tradition with a harmonic sense that encompasses traditional

  • Czech bluegrass in Pittsburgh

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    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story last week about Czech bluegrass band Druha Trava, who are touring in the US and Canada through the rest of September. The Gazette's Nate Guidry interviewed Robert Krestan, who founded the group in 1991 about