Since we first posted about Bluegrass Is My Second Language - A Year In The Life Of An Accidental Bluegrass Musician, the new book by John Santa, we've heard from readers who have been deeply touched by its story. Well, John
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IBMM lauds First Generation
The International Bluegrass Music Museum has announced a special day of honors for the people they describe as the First Generation of bluegrass. The day long event, dubbed The Pioneers Of Bluegrass Gathering, will include an honors ceremony, Legends Concert and
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The Infamous Stringdusters: Episode 4
Here's the fourth installment of the video content we're bringing you as part of our Infamous Stringdusters promotion. The album The Infamous Stringdusters, will be released on June 10, 2008. See our original post for information about the pre-order special. This video
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Merlefest videos on YouTube
With more than 75,000 music lovers in attendance - a great many with video recorders of some kind - it should come as no surprise that dozens of videos shot at Merlefest 2008 have popped up on YouTube. Of course at
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Blue Highway featured in Guitar Player
Blue Highway has found itself once again in the pages of Guitar Player magazine, surely among the most widely-circulated periodicals for musicians in the world. Resonator guitarist Rob Ickes was profiled in those pages in February of 2007, and both he
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Bluegrass Gospel Homiletics
In the lyrics from the opening track (Show 'EM Your Sermon) of his 2004 album, The Gospel In Black And White, Marty Raybon insists that your life may be the only sermon someone will ever hear. If that someone is
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Save Bean Blossom foundation forms
In November last year Jim Peva gave notice of the impending sale of the Bill Monroe Memorial Park and Campground, home of the famous Bean Blossom bluegrass festivals. More recently, he informed us of current plans. Following on from that comes
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Chris Thile on Prairie Home Companion
Chris Thile will be a guest on A Prairie Home Companion this weekend, sans the rest of his Punch Brothers merry band. The show will broadcast live from Las Cruces, NM on May 31 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (EDT) over a great
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Doyle at Kennedy Center
Last night's (5/29) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver concert at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC can be viewed online. The show runs just over an hour and includes a number of Doyle's most popular numbers, plus several songs from his current
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Audie Blaylock on WDVX
Audie Blaylock and Redline will be guests on today's (5/30) noontime edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. They have been hard at work on a new CD, which Audie promises will be chock full of hard-driving, traditional bluegrass music. They
