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This overview and photo gallery from the 2012 Milan Bluegrass Festival is a contribution from Bill Warren. Bill is a photographer and bluegrass fan in Michigan, and he will be covering ocassional events in the upper midwest for Bluegrass Today. This year’s Milan Bluegrass Festival at the KC campground in Milan, Michigan was the 15th year that Jim [...]
You'll want to be right here at Bluegrass Today this evening at 6:00 p.m. (EDT) to watch a live stream of the IBMA press conference to announce the nominees for the 2012 International Bluegrass Music Awards. Nominees in 22 categories will be revealed, plus this year's Hall of Fame inductees and Distinguished Achievement award recipients. [...]
Laura Tate Ridge has sent along a nice set of photos from last weekend's Wayside Bluegrass Festival in Stuart, VA.
Here's another gallery of images Frank Baker shot this past Saturday (7/14) at the 17th annualBluegrass on the Grass festival on the campus of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA.
This report, and photos, from Bean Blossom 2012 are a contribution from MaryE Yeomans, who we hope will be a regular correspondent and photographer for Bluegrass Today. It’s a hot one here today, the eighth and final day of the Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival just a few miles up the road from Nashville, [...]
When I was learning to play banjo in the mid-1970's, one of the first albums I bought was the two-album live recording from the Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom festival, which became one of my favorites and a great source of material to learn from Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Jim & Jesse, Jimmy Martin, and many [...]
For the past 25 years, Darrel and Phyllis Adkins of Adkins Productions have hosted the Bluegrass Classic music festival in Columbus, Ohio. After their daughter, Mandy, passed away from an inoperable brain tumor in 2000, they joined with numerous bluegrass musicians to turn their annual festival into Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC), with proceeds going [...]
Another benefit concert has been scheduled in Knoxville for Phil Leadbetter, who continues to undergo treatment for a very stubborn cancer that has been try resistant to common therapies. Phil has dedicated his life to bluegrass music, working in turn as resonator guitarist for such notable acts as J.D. Crowe & the New South, Wildfire, Grasstowne, [...]
Last week we shared the wonderful news that Herschel Sizemore had come through his cancer treatment with a clean bill of health. His wife, Joyce, is still undergoing treatment for breast cancer - as is one of their two daughters. The Sizemores have always lived frugally, and have carefully provided for their later years. But [...]
Keith Lawrence, the esteemed journalist at the Owensboro Messenger-Enquirer, has been writing about bluegrass music for the newspaper since 1985. Additionally, he has a blog, Bluegrass Notes, which he has been writing since 1991. Earlier this month Lawrence published his Ten Best Albums of 2011. They are, as follows ….. 10. NewFound Road Live At The [...]
