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Friday dawned dry, but chilly at the Newell Lodge Bluegrass Festival in Folkston, GA. Our emcee, Irby Brown, livened up the day and brought smiles to everyone’s faces and Big Cypress Bluegrass from Florida began chasing the chill away with their upbeat music. The Trinity River Band from Florida is an up and coming family band emerging [...]
The Newell Lodge Bluegrass Festival runs from March 6 - 8 at Newell Lodge in Folkston, GA, a beautiful setting for a festival. Early arrivals are enjoying the lovely weather, and were treated to jams both Monday and Tueday evening. Monday was warm and the jam was held in the beautiful gazebo at Newell. Tuesday turned a little chilly, so [...]
Two Alabama-based bluegrass groups have recently announced changes in representation. Delta Reign and Volume Five have both signed with the Dendler Management Agency in Dayton, OH. They join Trinity River Band, Skip Cherryholmes Quintet, and New Outlook working with Marsha Dendler. Dendler has been working in Artist Management with her own agency for the past year and [...]
Here are Frank Baker's images from Saturday at the 2013 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.
Volume Five has announced Harry Clark as the new mandolinist with the band. Harry hails from Searcy, AR where he got started on mandolin at the age of 10. He picked up guitar a few years later and started performing regionally with his family in 2007. Two years later he won the Arkansas State Mandolin Championship, [...]
Mountain Fever Records has released a very advance single from a Christmas-themed album due in the Fall of 2013. It's a track from Volume Five, a new song from Jerry Salley called Getting Ready For A Baby. It's a lovely ballad telling the story of Mary and Joseph preparing themselves for the birth of Jesus, and [...]
Another new single dropping today is Rich Man's Daughter, the first release from Volume Five's next project, Run. It is due on Mountain Fever in February 2013. The song tells the familiar tale of a poor suitor wooing a pretty girl from a wealthy family. He gets the girl, they run away together, but she [...]
Volume Five has announced that Jeff Partin, of Ella Jay, GA, is the new guitarist with the band. At 19 years old, Jeff has already spent several years playing bluegrass music, and had the honor to play on the Opry with Mike Snyder when he was 13. He is proficient on a variety of instruments, [...]
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 [...]
I had the occasion on Sunday to spend some time at Mountain Fever Studios in Willis, VA. Delta Reign was up from Alabama recording their first project for the Mountain Fever label, and I enjoyed hearing more of their quirky blend of bluegrass and swing as they were mixing and fixing the last few things [...]
