Nashville, TN -- Yesterday, exclusively on AOL's The Boot and just in time for Halloween, Country music star Pam Tillis debuted her latest music video, titled "The Monster & The Banjo." Tillis produced and stars in the bluegrass-themed music video, shot earlier this month on a hazy, erie fall morning on location in the Tennessee wilderness, just outside of Nashville.
Nashville, TN -- Rural Rhythm Records, the leader in classic Bluegrass collections, is proud to announce Bluegrass Power Picks - 25 Traditional Classics appears on Billboard’s Top Bluegrass Album Chart for the second week in a row at #12 and #14 respectively.
Hayward, CA— To celebrate the upcoming holiday season, The Loar is combining efforts with the Mandolin Cafe to give away one of our top-of-the-line hand-carved LM-700-VS mandolins to a lucky visitor to the Mandolin Cafe website.
Hiltons, VA -- Wayne Henderson’s top-notch finger-picking is a source of great pleasure and pride to his friends, family, and neighbors in Grayson County, Virginia. His guitar playing has also been enjoyed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of Masters of the Steel-String Guitar, and in seven nations in Asia. In addition to his reputation as a guitarist, Henderson is a luthier of great renown. He is a recipient of a 1995 National Heritage Award presented by the National Endowment for the Arts. He produces about twenty instruments a year, mostly guitars; he is almost as well-known for the mandolins he has made. Doc Watson, a good friend who sometimes stops at Wayne's shop in Rugby, Virginia, to pick a few tunes owns a Henderson mandolin. Saturday, November 3rd, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert by an old time band - Wayne Henderson and Friends. Performing with Wayne will be Jeff Little, piano player extraordinaire. Admission to the concert is $8 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free.
Dr. Thomas Adler announced today that the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has designated bluegrass music banjoist and bandleader J.D. Crowe as one of the recipients of an honorary doctorate. The Doctor of Arts degree will be conferred at the upcoming Commencement ceremony in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14th, 2012.
Nashville, TN -- Bill Cody will spotlight All The Way To Bethlehem, bluegrass artist Donna Ulisse’s dramatic new Christmas album, Tuesday, October 23, on his “Coffee, Country and Cody” morning drive show on Nashville radio station WSM-AM 650. Donna’s segment will start at 9:00 a. m. Central Time
Energized from their stellar bluegrass performances at some of the top music festivals in the east, including All Good, Terrapin Hill Music Festival, Appalachian Uprising, Shoefest, and their own festival, Snugglefest, Cincinnati, Ohio’s Rumpke Mountain Boys much anticipated sophomore album Trashgrass is set for release on November 2nd.
Legendary, iconic, famed are some of the adjectives used to describe Fiddler Tim Smith, but amazing works just as well. Some fiddlers have tone, others speed, others touch, and a few have grace and style. Tim is a true combination of all these attributes. His new album "Fiddler Tim Smith & Friends" has a "Who's-Who" backing musician list, and he wrote most of the songs, a difficult enough thing in the Bluegrass genre, where supposedly everything worth playing has long since been played many times over. But the overall coloring of the album is provided by Tim's fiddle, as it should be.
At 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 25th, the Willis Gap Community Center Open Jam from Patrick County, Virginia will be the featured Venue Showcase at Heartwood. “As sometimes happens, these Jams grow from modest beginnings,” says Jack Hinshelwood, executive director of The Crooked Road. “This one started back around 1995 when friends of Nellie and Otto Hiatt would gather for music in their home. To accommodate all the folks that wanted to hear and play the music, it was moved to the Community Center but it still retains that welcome to our home atmosphere”.
Pete Wernick announces the availability of two scholarships to his 2013 Advanced Banjo Camp, January 21-26 in Boulder, Colorado. The camp is geared to players in performing bands and focuses on tone, timing, “believability”, creativity, band dynamics, and performance. The scholarships are intended for pickers who would need financial help to attend the camp.
Nashville, TN -- The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will shine a spotlight on its exhibition The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country, with several special programs on November 10-11. Highlights include a family program in which kids will create an art project inspired by Bakersfield Sound stage wear and instruments; a songwriter session with Buddy Mize; and an interview with Buck Owens family members Buddy Alan, John Owens, Mel Owens and Michael Owens (including a brief performance by Alan), all on Saturday, November 10.
Hiltons, VA -- Melvin Goins has been playing mountain string music for more than 60 years. The music he does became known as bluegrass about the time Melvin and his brother, Ray, started playing professionally. The Goins Brothers performed together until Ray retired from touring in 1994. Melvin has shared the stage with people like Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Paul Williams, Jim & Jessee McReynolds, and many others. He currently resides in the state of Kentucky. In October, 2009, Melvin, Bobby Osborne, and Paul Williams were inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame for their work with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers. Melvin played bass for Ralph and Carter Stanley and did a comedy act on the Grand Ole Opry with Mike Snider. In March of this year, Melvin was honored along with his late brother as part of the 2011 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. Come and experience this bluegrass pioneer
Saturday, October 27th, 2012 at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia.
Headlining the first ever of its kind, and dedicated to traditional Bluegrass, Gospel and Ole time Mountain Music of the beautiful smokey mountains in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Musick's Mountain Theatre will host it's grand opening show November 30,2012. The American Icon Dr. Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys will bring this theatre to life on this unforgettable evening.
Nashville, TN -- Steve Johnson of Mountain Music Entertainment and Andrea Ball of Make Welcome Entertainment have announced plans to enter into an acquisition agreement. Under the agreement, Mountain Music Entertainment will transfer assets, including a number of artists on the agency roster, to Make Welcome Entertainment and the combined agency will operate as Make Welcome Entertainment. The acquisition and transfer of Mountain Music Entertainment to Make Welcome Entertainment becomes effective on October 19th. Johnson recently accepted a full time position with Wilkes Community College and MerleFest.
Nashville, TN -- by Sherri George
Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver were presented with the prestigious Vocal Group or Band of the Year Award at the 18th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards on Thursday night at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in downtown Nashville.
Nashville, TN -- Yesterday, exclusively on AOL's The Boot and just in time for Halloween, Country music star Pam Tillis debuted her latest music video, titled "The Monster & The Banjo." Tillis produced and stars in the bluegrass-themed music video, shot earlier this month on a hazy, erie fall morning on location in the Tennessee wilderness, just outside of Nashville.
Nashville, TN -- Rural Rhythm Records, the leader in classic Bluegrass collections, is proud to announce Bluegrass Power Picks - 25 Traditional Classics appears on Billboard’s Top Bluegrass Album Chart for the second week in a row at #12 and #14 respectively.
Hayward, CA— To celebrate the upcoming holiday season, The Loar is combining efforts with the Mandolin Cafe to give away one of our top-of-the-line hand-carved LM-700-VS mandolins to a lucky visitor to the Mandolin Cafe website.
Hiltons, VA -- Wayne Henderson’s top-notch finger-picking is a source of great pleasure and pride to his friends, family, and neighbors in Grayson County, Virginia. His guitar playing has also been enjoyed at Carnegie Hall, in three national tours of Masters of the Steel-String Guitar, and in seven nations in Asia. In addition to his reputation as a guitarist, Henderson is a luthier of great renown. He is a recipient of a 1995 National Heritage Award presented by the National Endowment for the Arts. He produces about twenty instruments a year, mostly guitars; he is almost as well-known for the mandolins he has made. Doc Watson, a good friend who sometimes stops at Wayne's shop in Rugby, Virginia, to pick a few tunes owns a Henderson mandolin. Saturday, November 3rd, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert by an old time band - Wayne Henderson and Friends. Performing with Wayne will be Jeff Little, piano player extraordinaire. Admission to the concert is $8 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free.
Dr. Thomas Adler announced today that the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees has designated bluegrass music banjoist and bandleader J.D. Crowe as one of the recipients of an honorary doctorate. The Doctor of Arts degree will be conferred at the upcoming Commencement ceremony in Lexington, Kentucky, on December 14th, 2012.
Nashville, TN -- Bill Cody will spotlight All The Way To Bethlehem, bluegrass artist Donna Ulisse’s dramatic new Christmas album, Tuesday, October 23, on his “Coffee, Country and Cody” morning drive show on Nashville radio station WSM-AM 650. Donna’s segment will start at 9:00 a. m. Central Time
Energized from their stellar bluegrass performances at some of the top music festivals in the east, including All Good, Terrapin Hill Music Festival, Appalachian Uprising, Shoefest, and their own festival, Snugglefest, Cincinnati, Ohio’s Rumpke Mountain Boys much anticipated sophomore album Trashgrass is set for release on November 2nd.
Legendary, iconic, famed are some of the adjectives used to describe Fiddler Tim Smith, but amazing works just as well. Some fiddlers have tone, others speed, others touch, and a few have grace and style. Tim is a true combination of all these attributes. His new album "Fiddler Tim Smith & Friends" has a "Who's-Who" backing musician list, and he wrote most of the songs, a difficult enough thing in the Bluegrass genre, where supposedly everything worth playing has long since been played many times over. But the overall coloring of the album is provided by Tim's fiddle, as it should be.
At 7:00 pm on Thursday, October 25th, the Willis Gap Community Center Open Jam from Patrick County, Virginia will be the featured Venue Showcase at Heartwood. “As sometimes happens, these Jams grow from modest beginnings,” says Jack Hinshelwood, executive director of The Crooked Road. “This one started back around 1995 when friends of Nellie and Otto Hiatt would gather for music in their home. To accommodate all the folks that wanted to hear and play the music, it was moved to the Community Center but it still retains that welcome to our home atmosphere”.
Pete Wernick announces the availability of two scholarships to his 2013 Advanced Banjo Camp, January 21-26 in Boulder, Colorado. The camp is geared to players in performing bands and focuses on tone, timing, “believability”, creativity, band dynamics, and performance. The scholarships are intended for pickers who would need financial help to attend the camp.
Nashville, TN -- The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum will shine a spotlight on its exhibition The Bakersfield Sound: Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and California Country, with several special programs on November 10-11. Highlights include a family program in which kids will create an art project inspired by Bakersfield Sound stage wear and instruments; a songwriter session with Buddy Mize; and an interview with Buck Owens family members Buddy Alan, John Owens, Mel Owens and Michael Owens (including a brief performance by Alan), all on Saturday, November 10.
Hiltons, VA -- Melvin Goins has been playing mountain string music for more than 60 years. The music he does became known as bluegrass about the time Melvin and his brother, Ray, started playing professionally. The Goins Brothers performed together until Ray retired from touring in 1994. Melvin has shared the stage with people like Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, the Osborne Brothers, Paul Williams, Jim & Jessee McReynolds, and many others. He currently resides in the state of Kentucky. In October, 2009, Melvin, Bobby Osborne, and Paul Williams were inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame for their work with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers. Melvin played bass for Ralph and Carter Stanley and did a comedy act on the Grand Ole Opry with Mike Snider. In March of this year, Melvin was honored along with his late brother as part of the 2011 Kentucky Music Hall of Fame. Come and experience this bluegrass pioneer
Headlining the first ever of its kind, and dedicated to traditional Bluegrass, Gospel and Ole time Mountain Music of the beautiful smokey mountains in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, Musick's Mountain Theatre will host it's grand opening show November 30,2012. The American Icon Dr. Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys will bring this theatre to life on this unforgettable evening.
Nashville, TN -- Steve Johnson of Mountain Music Entertainment and Andrea Ball of Make Welcome Entertainment have announced plans to enter into an acquisition agreement. Under the agreement, Mountain Music Entertainment will transfer assets, including a number of artists on the agency roster, to Make Welcome Entertainment and the combined agency will operate as Make Welcome Entertainment. The acquisition and transfer of Mountain Music Entertainment to Make Welcome Entertainment becomes effective on October 19th. Johnson recently accepted a full time position with Wilkes Community College and MerleFest.
Nashville, TN -- by Sherri George 