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Sierra Hull is having an eventful freshman year in college.
She entered the Berklee College of Music last fall with the promise and pressure that comes with Berklee’s prestigious Presidential Scholarship, and found herself juggling the arduous first year class load with a busy touring schedule. She was gone for 25 days in October/November on the [.....]
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Slate.com recently ran an article about Steve Martin entitled: Late-Period Steve Martin. The subtitle proves helpful in understanding what the piece is about: How to understand the actor, novelist, essayist, playwright, banjo player, crotch-centric variety show performer, and Oscar co-host.
The author’s concern is to answer the question of how? While his more recent efforts in film, music, [.....]
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Chris Pandolfi, the multi-talented banjo picker with The Infamous Stringdusters, has added yet another clever stop action video to his oeuvre.
This one is plugging the band’s next CD, Things That Fly, set for an April 20 release on Sugar Hill. You’ll hear a few pieces of audio and find out how the new album will [.....]
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Bill Miller, host and producer of Bluegrass Gospel USA!, is pleased to announce several new affiliates for his weekly radio show. It is offered at no charge to commercial and non-commercial stations looking for non-denominational Gospel music programming.
Miller has worked in radio most of his life and also hosts The Bill Miller Show each week [.....]
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Fred Robbins has spent many years chronicling bluegrass music, as a photographer and audio recordist starting in the 1960s, and more recently as a videographer as well. He has had articles published in Bluegrass Unlimited and is an active member of the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association where he lives in eastern New York state.
Fred has [.....]
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The new CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline, Cryin’ Heart Blues, is set for a March 30 release on Rural Rhythm.
We wrote last year during the IBMA convention about what an impressive showcase Audie and the boys delivered during their Wednesday brunch showcase. It was a very impressive performance, even
“Blaylock is a singularly powerful vocalist, [.....]
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We posted a sneak peek last week of the upcoming Doyle Lawson Gospel CD, Light On My Feet, Ready To Go. It was in the form of an audio sample from the first single – the title track, written and sung by new Quicksilver guitarist Corey Hensley.
The new album will be released March 30 on [.....]
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The bluegrass world has been abuzz since the end of 2009 when it was announced that Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, Keith Garrett and John Bowman had assembled a new band.
Billed as The Boxcars, the band has as of early Spring 2010, played only a very shows and the anticipation of hearing them live [.....]
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We have been made aware of the theft of a number of left-handed instruments that may show up within the bluegrass community.
In what may have come as an unpleasant surprise to the thief, all of the instruments taken were left-handed models, making them not only harder to sell quickly, but also much easier to identify [.....]
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AcuTab Publications has announced March 16 as the release date for their newest instructional DVD, Secrets Songs & Tunes by Sierra Hull. It offers four hours of insight and instruction from this young mandolin prodigy on two DVDs, with a printed booklet.
If you are plugged in to the bluegrass scene, you may have been hearing [.....]
We’re proud to announce that our very own Carol Beaugard, host of Lonesome Pine RFD, has been chosen by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) to participate in the 2010 class of Leadership Bluegrass.
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