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For 37 years, Don and Barbara Tucker had run the Huck Finn Jubilee in south central California on Father's Day weekend. For most of its tenure, their bluegrass festival was held at the Mojave Narrows Regional Park in Victorville, but after Don passed away in 2012, the festival moved about 30 miles to the Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park in Ontario, [...]
On This Day …………… On May 10, 1979 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver played their first public performance at Buddy's Bar-B-Que in Knoxville, Tennessee. Quicksilver's original band consisted of Terry Baucom on banjo, Jimmy Haley on guitar, Lou Reid on bass, and band leader Doyle Lawson on mandolin. Lawson reminisces ….. "I had been contemplating forming [...]
Paul Williams, one of the most dynamic and enduring entertainers in bluegrass, has decided to call it a day. Having written a handful of classic songs over his career, which has involved 60 years running the roads, no one is more deserving of a long and restful retirement. It was with The Lonesome Pine Fiddlers [...]
Here is a gallery of photos from the 2014 New Years Bluegrass Festival in Jekyll Island, GA taken by Bill Warren.
Doyle Lawson took the opportunity to note the 2nd annual Bluegrass Music Appreciation Day at the Christmas in the Smokies Bluegrass Festival in Pigeon Forge, TN. The annual commemoration on December 12 was suggested by banjo player Lee Marcus in 2012 as a way to get bluegrass lovers to share the music one day a year. He created [...]
Here's a second galley of images from The 2013 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, taken by Bill Warren.
Regular readers will recall our earlier coverage of mandolin icon Herschel Sizemore and his recent bout with cancer. Both he and his wife Joyce received cancer diagnoses the same day in October 2011, his in the tonsil and hers in the breast. Fortunately, medical treatment in both cases was successful, and the Sizemores are both [...]
We got a note from Doyle Lawson this morning with some further news about his touring band, Quicksilver. “After about 4 years of playing guitar and then switching to bass, Corey Hensley has left the band to pursue other interests. Corey was a multiple vocalist during his stay here, and wrote or co-wrote some of [...]
It looks like it's time for another personnel change in Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Corey Hensley has played his final show with the band, so we can expect an announcement from Doyle about a new bass player in the near future. On his way out, Corey asked if we would share a few parting words [...]
Perhaps the biggest change for World of Bluegrass in Raleigh for 2013 is the city's scheduling of a major downtown street fair to coincide with the weekend Wide Open Bluegras Festival during IBMA week. Wide Open Bluegrass is a ticketed event, with performances from Doyle Lawson, Steve Martin with Steep Canyon Rangers, Seldom Scene, Dailey [...]
