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The Mountain Music Project, a film about a pair of bluegrass musicians who visited Nepal to meet and jam with folk musicians in that Asian nation, is now available as part of Amazon Prime. Subscribers to Amazon's service can rent the documentary for only $1.99, or purchase it for $8.99, and watch it on any [...]
Tara Linhardt has teamed up with Tim O'Brien, Abigail Washburn, and the Mountain Music Project in an effort to raise badly needed funds for the people in the mountains of Nepal who have been devastated by recent earthquakes in the Himalayan communities just north of India. The level of destruction there defies description, with entire towns [...]
The latest release from Patuxent Records' astounding youth movement is a self-titled fiddle album from Jamestown, NC bowman Daniel Greeson. For a musician not yet 18 years old, Mr. Greeson displays a remarkable command of bluegrass fiddle, and of the classic tunes and sterling players who have defined it. In fact, one remarkable thing about [...]
Roosterfest last Sunday was a wonderful day full of awesome music, with folks reuniting, catching up, swapping stories and remembering the great Rooster Ruley who passed away earlier this year Rooster was a truly unique character who seemed to be from an earlier time in many ways. He was an amazing musician, and could be [...]
This weekend, family, friends and fans of Rooster Ruley, a popular banjo picker in central Virginia who passed away on February 13, will gather to remember the man and his music at the Washington & Lee Pavilion in Lexington. It will be a combination concert and posthumous CD release party for Rooster's Ruckus, an album [...]
Thanks to Tom Mindte and his Rockville, Maryland company Patuxent Music, which boasts releases from artists like Travers Chandler & Avery County, Jessie Baker, and Ethan Hughes, the bluegrass world has been receiving some pretty cool music as of late. Now, Patuxent Music is back at it again with a new release from Merl Johnson. [...]
We've posted several times about The Mountain Music Project, a documentary film which covers a musical journey of discovery from Appalachia to Nepal. The project follows a pair of Virginia pickers, Tara Lindhart and Danny Knicely, as they travel through the mountains of Nepal seeking and finding similarities between the folk music traditions of the Appalachian [...]
We've mentioned The Mountain Music Project several times over the past few years, specifically the film they shot in Nepal five years ago. Project principals Danny Knicely and Tara Linhardt visited Nepal in 2006 as part of a cross-cultural adventure to carry Appalachian music to a wholly different set of mountains. They filmed both abroad [...]
Whenever the Eastman String Band plays at a festival, there are a few things you can depend on – Savannah Finch’s silky vocals, Tim Finch’s wacky humor and some hot picking. Beyond that, though, you never know what, or who, to expect on stage. Sunday’s show at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival was no exception. The [...]
Danny Knicely and Tara Lindhart are a pair of bluegrass pickers and private instructors in Northern Virginia who have dedicated themselves to the furtherance of this music. They maintain a full schedule of students, many of them youngsters, and perform in various configurations in the DC area, and all over the world. They are also [...]
