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Just over a year ago since their debut at the IBMA Award Show at the Ryman Auditorium, The Masters of Bluegrass - Del McCoury, JD Crowe, Bobby Osborne, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury - will be making their last appearance together at The Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Florida, on December 8. The [...]
Here's a second galley of images from The 2013 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, taken by Bill Warren.
For anyone who may have scoffed at Noam Pikelny's recent suggestion that he has been cramming on J.D. Crowe's music of late, we offer further proof in the form of this video shot backstage during his current tour. Noam is out with Barry Bales, Bryan Sutton, Luke Bulla, and Jesse Cobb to promote his new [...]
Over the past few years, no record label has been more aggressive in signing artists and releasing new projects than Mountain Fever Records. The small, independent label is based in Floyd County, VA and run by Mark Hodges, with help from Aaron Ramsey who frequently serves as engineer/producer for Mountain Fever sessions. This week they [...]
For a limited period only the University of Illinois Press (UIP) is making available in an E-book format three top quality bluegrass titles. Beginning on September 24, the date on which the International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass event in Raleigh, North Carolina, commences, through to the end of the month, September 30, UIP [...]
Rebel Records has announced the October 22nd release of a new Gospel compilation album, Memories of That Old Country Church (REB-CD-8008). Gospel and sacred music has been an integral part of bluegrass music’s repertoire for as long as the music has been played and as new bands were introduced each has added to an increasingly wonderful [...]
Bobby Slone was born June 13, 1936, in Pike County, Kentucky, and passed away on Monday, August 12, due to rectal cancer. A left hander, Robert 'Bobby' Slone was an important member of one of the most influential modern bluegrass bands: J.D. Crowe & the New South. Slone and Crowe began playing together in the [...]
Here's Jason Lombard's first gallery of images from Telluride 2013, celebrating the festival's 40th Anniversary.
Well, summer is here, although bluegrass fans know summer starts when you attend your first outdoor bluegrass festival of the season. (You know I'm right!) According to Mother Nature though, today is officially the first day of summer. Unless you're a snowbird who thumbs his nose at nature and spends the winter in Florida, you're [...]
Here is a gallery of images that Lexington, KY photographer Estill Robinson shot during this past weekend's Festival of the Bluegrass. This first batch captures Masters Of Bluegrass on stage, a supergroup that includes Del McCoury, Bobby Osborne, J.D. Crowe, Bobby Hicks and Jerry McCoury.
