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Just over a year ago since their debut at the IBMA Award Show at the Ryman Auditorium, The Masters of Bluegrass - Del McCoury, JD Crowe, Bobby Osborne, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury - will be making their last appearance together at The Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida, on December 8. The [...]
For those of us who live and breathe bluegrass music day after day, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that our genre is still in its infancy, relative to other longstanding musical traditions. Orchestral music has been around for hundreds of years, and the folk traditions of most every ethnic group in the [...]
Here's Jason Lombard's first gallery of images from Telluride 2013, celebrating the festival's 40th Anniversary.
Here is a gallery of images that Lexington, KY photographer Estill Robinson shot during this past weekend's Festival of the Bluegrass. This first batch captures Masters Of Bluegrass on stage, a supergroup that includes Del McCoury, Bobby Osborne, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury.
24 new episodes were announced today for the 8th season of the live bluegrass and acoustic music program, Song Of The Mountains, debuting June 15 on almost 200 public television affiliates across the US. The show works in collaboration with UNC-TV in Research Triangle City in North Carolina, who serves as SOTM's presenting station. Included in this [...]
Friday was a sad day in country music, as George Jones, among the most influential singers in the history of the music, passed away at 81 years of age. Perhaps excepting Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, no one was more responsible for shaping the future of Country & Western music than Jones, affectionately know for [...]
Sitting here in my Tennessee home tonight, with an ice storm having passed through the area today and being on our 3rd consecutive week of snow events that included “Thunder Snow” last week, the mind wanders to happier times when the sun is shining, the temps are warm and the bluegrass bands play late into [...]
"The MOB is on its way!” is what Don Rigsby of the Rambling Rooks had promised when they left the stage. He was talking to an excited crowd of onlookers at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC) in Bowling Green this past Saturday night, January 26. That’s right, friends, there’s a new MOB in [...]
They teased us at the IBMA Awards in September with a short performance, but the true magic is about to begin – the Masters of Bluegrass will finally be taking the stage this weekend. The band makes its premiere in Bristol, TN, at the Paramount Theater on Friday night the 25th, followed by a show on [...]
This past weekend in Pigeon Forge, TN, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road hosted the Christmas In The Smokies Bluegrass Festival at the Smoky Mountain Convention Center. Although hosted and promoted by the Larkin family for many years, this was the first year for Lorraine Jordan as the host and promoter. An ultra-successful business woman, Jordan [...]
