Bluegrass
Earl Scruggs, who made famous three-finger banjo-picking, and who in 1945 joined Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys died yesterday at age 88. Scruggs born in Shelby, North Carolina played in Monroe's Blue Grass Boys until 1948, when he left the Blue Grass Boys and he & guitarist, Lester Flatt, combined to form Flatt and Scruggs.Scruggs, perhaps best known for his tune 'The Ballad of Jed Clampett,' for the TV Show The Beverly Hillbillies, and the grammy winning 'Foggy Mountain Breakdown' was a pioneer in bluegrass music.
Marley's Ghost — a virtuoso aggregation composed of singer/multi-instrumentalists Dan Wheetman, Jon Wilcox, Mike Phelan, Ed Littlefield Jr. and Jerry Fletcher — celebrates its 25th anniversary with the scintillating roots-music tour de force Jubilee (Sage Arts, June 5).
Z2 Entertainment is proud to present David Grisman Bluegrass Experience at the Boulder Theater on Friday, July 13th, 2012. Tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 10:00 am for $30.00 in advance and $32.50 day of show.For the past few years, one of the best-kept secrets of the Bay Area music scene was a David Grisman Bluegrass Experience show.
The Woodsongs Coffeehouse Dalton Chapter concludes its annual winter concert series to benefit Providence Ministries on Saturday March 31st at the historic Dalton Freight Depot. This regionally acclaimed concert series will feature one of the top selling performing acts in bluegrass, Special Consensus with the Belfry Fellows (formally Rockin' Acoustic Circus) an emerging band with "a fresh direction for acoustic music".
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Sugar Hill Records is excited to announce that as part of Record Store Day 2012 we will be releasing three special titles in extremely limited quantities. We have dipped into our catalog to re-introduce two of the most time honored records on the label to the vinyl medium - Ricky Skaggs’ and Tony Rice’s Skaggs and Rice (1980) and Townes Van Zandt’s At My Window (1987).
RICKY SKAGGS AND TONY RICE - Skaggs and Rice
Multi-award winning bluegrass band, BRAND NEW STRINGS announced details of their CD Release Party for their new album STAY TUNED releasing on Nashville's Rural Rhythm Records later this month. The event will take place Friday, March 23, 201
The Infamous Stringdusters announce the release of their latest studio album, Silver Sky, set for national release on March 13th. The album marks a period of massive change and growth within the band, as well as explosive growth to audiences around the country. This transition is audible on Silver Sky, with many novel approaches for the band including some alternative instrumentation (keys, horns, drums), a new producer, and the move to a five-piece band.
