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The awards for artists who, on recorded and/or in-person performance during the specified time period, have shown an extraordinary mastery of their instruments. The awards go to the artists. The Fiddle Player Of The Year for 2006 is: Michael Cleveland web site bio audio Review past recipients of this award.
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, featuring Audie Blaylock will be featured on The Grand Ole Opry this Saturday, August 19. They will appear during the 7:30-8:00 and 10:30-11:00 p.m. segments, eastern daylight time. This new group has attracted a great deal of attention in a very short time, including a nomination as Emerging Artist Of The [...]
The International Bluegrass Music Assocaiation has announced the nominees for the 17th Annual International Bluegrass Music Awards. The nominations are more evenly spread among prominent acts this year, with no one running away with the lead. Repeating as last year's most nominated artist, Alison Krauss & Union Station leads the pack with 7, followed by [...]
Michael Cleveland has been added to the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend faculty for 2006, taking the place of Kenny Baker, who has found that he will be unable to teach this year. The RBW staff will make refunds available to any students who had registered especially to study with Kenny, though they expect that serious students [...]
There has been a great deal of speculation, and a fair amount of misinformation, concerning the status of Audie Blaylock & Redline. We reported back in April that Michael Cleveland had launched a group of his own called Flamekeeper, when he announced that he would be leaving Dale Ann Bradley, which we also covered in [...]
Of course, since Michael Cleveland, Jesse Brock and Pete Kelly have left Dale Ann Bradley's band to work with Flamekeeper, one immediately wonders who will be working on Dale Ann's shows. I had a chance to speak with Vicki Simmons yesterday, who has not only played bass and sung with Dale Ann for many years, [...]
We had told you earlier this year that Michael Cleveland was planning to do some shows in 2006 with his own band, which he had named Flamekeeper. At the time, Mike was the fiddler with Dale Ann Bradley, a role he has recently relinquished after five years in order to pursue his new group full [...]
Fiery fiddler, and three-time IBMA award winner, Michael Cleveland's new CD, Let 'Er Go Boys! is out on Rounder Records. It features 17 tracks, with guest artists Vince Gill, Del McCoury, Dan Tyminski, Larry Sparks, Tim O'Brien, Jeff White, Audie Blaylock, Jesse Brock, Jason Moore, Charlie Cushman, Rob Ickes and Jens Kruger listed among the [...]
Award winning fiddler Michael Cleveland has announced that in addition to his regular gig as a member of Dale Ann Bradley's band, he will also be doing shows this year with his own group, FlameKeeper. Joining him will be Audie Blaylock on guitar and Bobby Davis on bass (both performing regularly with Audie Blaylock & [...]
