Bluegrass At Large

  • Tom Adams lays the banjo down

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    Tom Adams, celebrated former banjo player with The Johnson Mountain Boys, Blue Highway and others, has announced his plans to set the banjo down, and perhaps focus on guitar instead. He has been suffering from focal dystonia for the past

  • Banjo player makes 2nd round in Forbes contest

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    Banjo player John Drummond was hoping for success when he started his own business, unicycle.com, in 1999, but his hopes didn't aspire to making a living selling unicyles. By 2003 however, the business was going well enough that his wife

  • Reno/Smiley Tribute

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    UPCOMING BLUEGRASS SHOW Bon Mar Productions Presents: Saturday, January 12, 2008 PARAMOUNT THEATRE 128 E Front Street ~ Burlington, NC CONSTANT CHANGE ~AND~ RENO/SMILEY TRIBUTE by Shallow Creek w/Guest Steven Martin Including the storytelling of Reno/Smiley (Special Guest ~ TBA) Show Time: 7:30PM Tickets: Advance $15.00 At the Door $18.00 For

  • Sammy Shelor’s Corn Acoustics

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    Last year around this time, we told you about Lonesome River Band banjo picker Sammy Shelor's side business when fall rolls around. He and his wife Sue plant a field of corn each spring, not to bring to market, but

  • Senor McGuire, Sam and Ringo

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    Here's a fun YouTube clip we found on Sam Bush's web site. Those of us of a certain age will get a kick out of seeing a pop icon like Ringo Starr speaking excitedly about artists held in high esteem

  • Bluegrass Sundays at the Strasburg Theater

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    "Bluegrass Sundays" started off this past week with a sparse but vocal and appreciative audience singing and clapping along to the wonderful music of "Sound Roots". I'd like to send out a very special thank you to Bob

  • New SW Ohio Bluegrass Venue

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    Located just 30 minutes north of Downtown Cincinnati, Spicer's Lake is a wonderful, new outdoor music venue that has featured some "all time favorites" as well as rising stars in todays bluegrass scene. The beautiful 60 acre property offers some

  • Tim Carter / Carter Brothers to tour Ireland

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    Tim Carter, supporting his new release 'Bang Bang', is touring Ireland in September. Tim and the Carter Brothers Band will be playing the Omagh Bluegrass Festival as well as the Johnny Keenan Banjo Festival. Also playing the Johnny Keenan Festival

  • Herb Sandker hospitalized

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    Herb Sandker, husband of Rhonda Vincent and President of Upper Management Inc., was hospitalized briefly this weekend after experiencing chest and arm pains on Friday (8/24). Rhonda left the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival where she was performing Friday, and was able