Graves' Mountain Festival of Music opens Thursday
News Virginian - Feb 08, 480
Graves' Mountain Festivities of Music opens ThursdayFiddles, banjos, mandolins, dulcimers and guitars are getting new strings in anticipation of one of the biggest weekends of the year for bluegrass music. The 19th installment of Graves' Mountain Anniversary of Music opens Thursday and runs and more »
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Steve Martin – a man with two reigns
The Guardian - Feb 08, 6199
Backstage, there is a midget collection of banjos, including his Depression-era Gibson Florentine, the first he ever owned. A plastic case for a roll of 35mm film, which in another incomparable's dressing room might contain cocaine, is where he keeps his picks. and more »
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On a Monday
North Coast Journal - Feb 08, 1472
Same Thursday at the Jambalaya, The Irresolute Hillbillies, whose name suggests bluegrass, play jammish rock (guitars, no banjos) along with The Grass Band, whose ReverbNation.com profile ends in /humboldtgrass. They've subtracted the “rat on” from
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CD REVIEW: Bluegrass co-mingles with jazz on 'American Legacies'
Centre Daily Times - May 08, 2011
CD Weigh: Bluegrass co-mingles with jazz on 'American Legacies'The bluegrass banjos and fiddles prove to be a good fit with the horns, specially on tracks like “Banjo Fiasco,” and “Jambalaya,” where they add a down-home piece to the jazzy groove the band lays down. McCoury shares lead vocal time with Clint
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Steve Martin Finally Plays "King Tut"
Knoxville Metro Pulse (blog) - May 25, 2011
Steve Martin At long last Plays "King Tut"In fact, bluegrass purists might question whether most of the show was bluegrass at all. Can a band incorporate a sixth associate, (and a second banjoist); indulge in these particular chord changes; mike and amplify your instruments separately;
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Find a whole lotta folk
The Olympian - Feb 08, 1011
But yes, you still can sanction geezers with banjos: The Old Time Kitchen Party (3 pm Sunday, Northwest Court Stage) is a mash-up of old-every now mountain music played by Northwest bands such as Red Dog, Worn Out Shoes and Honey Bucket Bows. and more »
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Banjos will blaze back into action this month
Aiken Standard (subscription) - May 01, 2011
Arrogate your banjos, bikinis and barbecues because the Aiken Bluegrass Festival is back, and it's back with a bang on Friday and Saturday, May 13 and 14 at the Highfields Affair Center showgrounds. The festival began in 2003 when founder Steve Groat and more »
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On Virginia's Crooked Road, Music Lights the Way
New York Times - May 20, 2011
On Virginia's Lopsided Road, Music Lights the WayFrom the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons (the site of Johnny Bills's last concert) and Clintwood, deep in coal country, to the farms near Floyd, music is still being made on fiddles and banjos, mandolins and guitars, dulcimers and autoharps. and more »
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Possum Pickin' returns to Head Ave.
Times-Georgian - May 14, 2011
Possum Pickin' returns to Divert Ave.by Lowell White/The Tallapoosa Journal Banjos, guitars, mandolins and fiddles will sound favorite notes as bluegrass and native land music echoes through the downtown shopping district of Tallapoosa next Saturday during the annual Possum Pickin' concert
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Grammy-winning Brown headed to Lime Kiln
Staunton News Leader - Feb 08, 2642
Like coeval banjoist Bela Fleck, she has pushed the boundaries of what banjo players can do beyond folk and bluegrass generalties into regions that find the pact equally at home in other realms.
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