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Late in October 1963, bluegrass singer Bill Clifton and his family moved to England for what was planned to be a six to nine month stay. He remained in Europe for four years. During that time, he played in western Europe, particularly Germany, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland, as well as throughout Britain. In 1967 [...]
Over the years, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage have made a habit of dressing up as a band for Halloween, especially for Bluegrass Halloween events at the Fall Bluegrass Festival in Amelia, VA. She shared a few of the images of their costumes over the years today for a chuckle as you distribute candy to [...]
This past Saturday, when Blue Mafia was playing at Nashville's Station Inn, Mac Rebennack was among the many fans who stopped in to enjoy some live bluegrass. Rebennack, more familiarly known to music fans worldwide as Dr. John, is a multi-Grammy winning artist from New Orleans whose mix of blues, rock, and cajun music has won [...]
Mike Conner, bass player with The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, and popular Roanoke, VA musician, singer, and event producer, is currently hospitalized in Knoxville, TN after losing consciousness on Saturday. According to good friend and fellow musician John Miller, with whom Mike and his wife were visiting in Knoxville, Conner was returning to the house [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters' Jeremy Garrett really is something of a rolling stone. Living as he does in a mobile recreational vehicle, he's not always able to be pinned down. But we caught up with him by phone a few weeks back while he and his wife, Connie, were parked in Colorado waiting for the impending [...]
Dailey & Vincent have announced the addition of Baltimore fiddler Patrick McAvinue to their touring band. He takes the spot recently vacated by BJ Cherryholmes, who has travelled with the group this past six years. BJ and his wife, Devon, are expecting a baby soon and he wants to be close to home for this [...]
On Monday we reported the news that Kenneth Lynn Seagroves, charged in a brutal, unprovoked assault on bluegrass singer/songwriter David Via in 2013, would face trial in the term that started this week in Burke County, NC. The attack struck all concerned as odd and arbitrary, with the assailant jumping Via while standing on the porch [...]
The folks at Wilson Pickins Bluegrass Promotions have teamed up with the Cortland Country Music Park in New York's Finger Lakes region to launch a new bluegrass festival in the summer of 2017. The inaugural Uncut Grass Festival will debut June 8-10 with three days of traditional bluegrass and acoustic country music in Cortland, NY. [...]
Reams, actual and virtual, has been written about Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass music roots. In his musically formative years, Garcia was a member of the Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers and the Asphalt Jungle Boys, both consisting of a fluid line-up of musicians that he had met during the very early 1960s. The first [...]
The Duplin County Events Center in Kenansville, NC has announced that they will host the first annual Blue, Brew & Que Festival in the spring of 2017. This 2 day, Friday/Saturday festival will bring top names in bluegrass to eastern North Carolina on March 31-April 1. Headliners include The Soggy Bottom Boys, Lonesome River Band, Russell Moore [...]
