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Dan Boner, Director of the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music program, has shared this news about a beloved faculty member who has gone on. E.C. Miller passed away around midnight. Among the most respected banjo players in East Tennessee, E.C. Miller shared music with students for more than sixty years. Among those he [...]
A number of faculty positions have been announced in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. This department, organized under the ETSU School of Appalachian Studies, nows offers a bachelor's degree for studying American acoustic, bluegrass and country music at the campus in Johnson City, TN. Three non-tenure track [...]
Rhonda Vincent has added reso-guitarist Brent Burke to The Rage, her touring and recording band. In addition to this stellar credential, Burke is also set for the distinction of becoming the very first graduate or ETSU's new Bachelor of Arts program in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies at the Fall 2011 commencement ceremony. [...]
For almost thirty years, East Tennessee State University has been known for its efforts to promote and preserve traditional Appalachian music. Under the initial supervision of Jack Tottle, then Raymond McLain, and now current program director Daniel Boner, the original but limited instrumental instruction and band classes have grown into one of the largest university-sanctioned [...]
Bristol Virginia's Mountain Music Museum unveiled a permanent Larry Sparks exhibit this past Saturday (10/15). Larry was in attendance, where he spoke briefly and performed with the ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band. The Museum is a project of the Appalachian Cultural Music Association, located in the Bristol Mall, where admission is free 7 days a week. Sparks [...]
Since its founding in 1982 by Jack Tottle, the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Program at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) has helped to further the careers of many of today’s prominent bluegrass and country musicians, including Adam Steffey, Barry Bales, and Tim Stafford. Haley Stiltner, whose first solo project Good Friends, Good Times [...]
The Bluegrass Pride Band, the elite performing group of the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at the East Tennessee State University, made their debut performance for the 2011-2012 academic year on Friday (8/26) in Kingsport, TN. The school offers a four year degree program for students who are interested in a professional career [...]
John Goad is a student at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, working on a dual major in History and Bluegrass Music. He will also be one of our correspondents and reviewers when we relaunch the site in September. While in the band competition at the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention this past weekend, Goad [...]
Sab Watanabe and Shyotaro Tsuchiya collaborated on this report on the Sendai Bluegrass Festival in Japan, held July 30. It has been edited from their original for clarity of translation. The Sendai Bluegrass Festival was held in Motokajicho-Park, Sendai-City, Miyagi-Prefecture on July 30. Sendai is one of the hot beds for bluegrass activities in Japan, [...]
We've posted many times about the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country music program at East Tennessee State University, where serious students of the music can now obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree - in playing banjos and fiddles! The program is designed to prepare students for a professional career in the music business, with courses [...]
