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During last month's Bobby Osborne tribute in Bristol, TN, Bobby sat down with Rick Dollar of NetRadioDogs for a fifteen minute interview about his long career in bluegrass music. Amidst the backstage craziness at the Paramount Center for the Arts, with a half dozen student bands from ETSU warming up, Rick walked Bobby through a [...]
On April 23, the Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University hosted a special concert at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, TN. It was a tribute to Bobby and his more than 60 years performing bluegrass music all over the world, which he continues to do at 84 [...]
The Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University will be honoring the one and only Bobby Osborne this Saturday (4/23) at a concert to be held at the Paramount Center for the Arts in Bristol, TN. It's the school's 13th Annual Celebration concert for the program, which will also feature brief performances by [...]
Bobby Osborne has put together another Christmas greeting for mandolin lovers worldwide, performed with his fellow instructor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music, Scott Napier, and a private student, Lauren Price. They arranged a triple mandolin version of a familiar carol, and a modern bluegrass classic. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="69064"] Merry Christmas right back at you [...]
Southern Belle Booking, managed by principal agent Leslie Brown in Burlington, NC, has announced that they have taken over as representatives for Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press. Bobby, of course, was one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who performed professionally in bluegrass and country music for more than 50 years until brother [...]
A lingering void in the bluegrass library is set to be filled by music journalist Bill Conger, who is working with Bobby Osborne to complete an autobiography of his life in the music business. Only recently have book publishers begun to recognize the market for such works, as evidenced by biographies of Ralph Stanley, The Stanley Brothers, and [...]
Thanks to Mike Kelly for this batch of photos from the first Rocky Top Bluegrass Festival in the newly-renamed Rocky Top, TN. Mike says the festival went well, though a rough weather forecast kept the audience numbers down on Saturday. Luckily the storms stayed away until after the show was over.
Many readers will remember a story last summer about a successful proposition to change to name of Lake City, a small town in east Tennessee, to Rocky Top, TN. There was a degree of opposition in Lake City, and the threat of legal action by the estate of Felice & Boudelaux Bryant, who wrote the [...]
Scott Napier and Bobby Osborne, otherwise known as the mandolin faculty at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music at Hazard Community and Technical College, created this brief holiday message on video. It's their twin mando version of the Christmas classic, You Better Watch Out. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="61312"]
Here's a second batch of images from Frank Baker taken at last weekend's Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
