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As a Bluegrass Today correspondent, I get to listen to a lot of music during the year. Some on CDs, some live. Some traditional bluegrass, some most definitely not. Some of it terrific, some of it, well, not so much. But one of the most difficult parts of the job comes at the end of [...]
Today, Claire Lynch is best known as a stellar lead vocalist, session vocalist, and songwriter. She has been named IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year twice, and gathered numerous IBMA and Grammy nominations. While she has led the Claire Lynch Band since 2005, she got her star fronting the Alabama-based Front Porch String Band in [...]
Noted singer and songwriter Claire Lynch and banjo pioneer Tony Trischka have been awarded 2012 USA Fellowships. These are given annually by United States Artists to recognize American artists of every kind who have demonstrated exceptional ability, and are uniquely influential in their field. Their stated mission is to invest directly in these artists, and [...]
Claire Lynch stopped by our booth yesterday afternoon, and spoke with David Morris about her plans for the future, near term. It sounds as though a new album is on the horizon, with a new label and a bit of a different sound. Here's Claire and David... [jwplayer config="bgt" width="450" height="258" file="https://bgt.builtlikeclockwork.com/wp-content/uploads/v1/clynch.m4v"]
It’s only Wednesday, and early Wednesday at that, but I’m willing to bet the best music of the week has already been played and sang at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass. To be sure, many terrific bands will roll through the Nashville Convention Center for the rest of the conference and for Fan Fest this weekend, [...]
Rebel Records has three compilation CDs set for an October 16 release. One is a collection of songs from the two albums that Claire Lynch & Front Porch String Band did for the label back in the '80s, and the other two are budget anthologies of instrumental music for banjo and fiddle. The Lynch CD [...]
Compass Records has announced that Claire Lynch has signed a multi-album with the label, continuing their push to add more bluegrass-related acts to the roster. Other recent signees include The Gibson Brothers, Dale Ann Bradley, Larry Stephenson and Special Consensus. Claire and her talented band will be heading into the Compass studio in Nashville this [...]
Three agencies have announced news this week that relate to artist representation in the bluegrass world. Ralph Stanley is now being booked by the Paradigm Agency, based in Nashville. Bobby Cudd with Paradigm will be handling Stanley's dates. Unless you lay your mind to the dates, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that [...]
The 25th MerleFest was a blast and I had an amazing time shooting all of the spectacular musicians. This was my 5th time at the festival, and even though I wandered around quite a bit from stage to stage, I tended to stay around The Watson Stage the most. Here is a taste of a [...]
Forget the groundhog and his dismal forecast of six more weeks of winter. I saw a sure sign Sunday night that spring – and bluegrass festival season – is just around the corner. The occasion was the All-Star Jam at the Birchmere Music Hall just outside the nation’s capital, where a couple of hours of [...]
