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This weekend's edition of Best Of Bluegrass, airing on Radio Bluegrass International (RBI), has something special in store for all you Del-heads out there. Host Bob Mitchell tells us that he has just over an hour dedicated to Del McCoury, starting with a 30 minute audio bio and recap of his career, with music from his [...]
With dog talk seemingly taking over the US Presidential race, it seems like a perfect time to highlight this clever piece of work from Zach White. Zach is a country/bluegrass musician currently studying commercial music at Belmont University, where he performs with the student bluegrass ensemble. Here is a track from his solo album, Songs About [...]
Alan Bartram, bass player for The Del McCoury Band and The Travelin' McCoury's, and his wife Kristina are celebrating yesterday's birth of their first child, Ella Grey Bartram. She was born at 3:39 p.m. (CDT) on April 25, weighing in at 8 lb, 2 oz. Kristina is also part of the bluegrass family. She is [...]
Daniel Mullins sent along this gallery of images from last weekend's Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival.
The Del McCoury Band is playing this weekend at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, and I am really psyched to get to see them again. Del, whose fans range from Vince Gill to Elvis Costello, is a living legend in the music world. Even as one of the most recent inductees into IBMA's prestigious [...]
We had extensive coverage last week of the momentous tribute offered to mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore at a benefit concert in Roanoke, VA on February 19. The show featured performances by artists as diverse as Punch Brothers and Seldom Scene, with a special reunion set of the late 1970s edition of Del McCoury & The [...]
This coming weekend, the folks at Bluegrass Underground will be doing a marathon taping for their second season on PBS television. Shows are scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday (2/24-26) deep inside the earth at Tennessee's Cumberland Caverns, just a half hour's drive from Nashville. Scheduled to appear over the three days are The Del [...]
Dean Hoffmeyer captured dozens of memorable images at yesterday's (2/19) Sizemore Benefit Concert in Roanoke, VA.
Living as I do in Roanoke, VA, I am able to enjoy its vibrant and varied acoustic music scene. Roanoke has a rich bluegrass history, having served as the home for both Flatt & Scruggs and Reno & Smiley on radio, but I rarely mistake it for the center of the bluegrass universe. But that [...]
This report from Winter NAMM comes from Dan Miller, publisher of Flatpicking Guitar magazine. The 110th National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) show was held in Anaheim, California, from January 19th to the 22nd. There were 1441 exhibitors and 95,709 registered attendees at this year's event. With those kinds of numbers you might think, "That [...]
