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Burlington, MA – Rounder Records is pleased to announce that its artists and albums have received 6 Grammy ® nominations for the 52nd Annual Awards. The awards ceremony will be held on “Grammy ® Sunday,” January 31, 2010, at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast live ...
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Rounder Records
Woody Guthrie
Rhonda Vincent
Bill Monroe
The 52nd Annual GRAMMY ® Nominees were announced yesterday with Bluegrass Artists from Rounder, Sugar Hill, Rural Rhythm, Compass Records and Rebel Records picking up nominations in the Bluegrass related categories.
Nominations for the Best Bluegrass Album (Vocal or Instrumental) went to ...
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Rural Rhythm
Rebel Records
Steve Wariner
Sugar Hill Records
Rhonda Vincent
Sarah Jarosz
Jack Cooke
Norton, VA — Jack Cooke , long-time bass player and singer with Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Mountain Boys, died Tuesday (Dec. 1) at 10 p.m. at a hospital in his hometown of Norton, Va., after collapsing at his home.
Vernon Crawford “Jack” Cooke was born Dec. 6, 1936. His ...
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Jack Ingram
Bill Monroe
Ralph Stanley
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Rural Rhythm Records has announced the current single, “Hard Rock Mountain Prison (’Til I Die)” by award-winning group Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out has landed at the #1 ...
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Justin Moore
Rural Rhythm
Jimmy Wayne
Former Williams & Clark Expedition founding member Bobby Clark wasn’t a free man long. With the official announcement of Clarks’s departure from the Expedition barely 24 hours old, Jerry Butler & The Blu-J’s have announced the addition of Clark to the the ...
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Booking agency Roe Entertainment , with a roster focused on Bluegrass and Americana & Roots music artists, has relocated its office to Maryville, TN.
Jim Roe of Roe Entertainment feels this move is necessary to put himself closer to an abundance of bluegrass events. According to Roe, ...
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New York, NY, — Even as the digital music generation embraces the latest technological innovations, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) reports that traditional favorites still rule the holiday airwaves — and the iPod. Interpreted over the years ...
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Southern Gospel Music Association president Karen Peck Gooch inducts Don Light into the SGMA Hall of Fame recently in Dollywood. (Photo: Randall Franks)
Dailey and Vincent perform "By the Mark" to honor their manager Don Light. (Photo: Randall Franks)
Talent agent, manager ...
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Rhonda Vincent
Mark O'Connor. Photo by Erica Horn
To say that bluegrass has really come to town might be an understatement on the campus of famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass.
Fiddler-turned-master-violinist Mark O’Connor will help the music school introduce its new American Roots ...
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The Boston Bluegrass Union continues its 34th concert season by presenting one of the principal architects of contemporary bluegrass alongside one of the genre’s fastest-rising young stars. On Saturday, December 12th at 7:30, the Boston Bluegrass Union welcomes the John Cowan Band with special ...
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John Rich
The national day of Thanksgiving has nearly arrived.
According to Wikipedia, the holiday was started as a harvest festival, to give thanks for nature’s bounty and to express gratitude in general.
“Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members ...
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"Who Shot Lester Monroe" Blue Circle Records
Miss Dixie Hall writes a darn good e-newsletter that she always shares with BluegrassJournal.com. Her latest Good Home Grown Music News (it’s Volume 6) is full of good tidbits. Here’s an abridged look at some of them.
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Sara Evans
Tom T. Hall
Dale Watson
Owensboro, Ky. — The International Bluegrass Music Museum will host a gathering of all living Blue Grass Boys who played with Bill Monroe as part of the Pioneers of Bluegrass Reunion held during its River of Music Party ( ROMP ) in June.
This will be the third annual reunion event, ...
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Bill Monroe
East Tennesse State University , long known in the bluegrass realm for the quality of musicians that come through its music program, is now making a new inroad in the education and music fields.
Located in Johnson City, Tenn., ETSU has introduced a new major studies program that will ...
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Owensboro, KY — The International Bluegrass Music Museum will present an evening of Bluegrass music as video-taped for KET’s “Jubilee” series on public television. The special presentation will happen on Saturday, December 12 beginning at 5:00 p.m. as part of ...
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Sarah Siskind "Say It Louder"
Nashville, Tenn., — Sarah Siskind and husband Travis Book ( The Infamous Stringdusters ) are ready to end your Black Friday with a deal that’ll be hard to pass up. After you’ve emptied your wallet fighting the mobs at the mall, ...
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Randy Travis
Clint Black
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers "Cloud of Dust"
It’s arrived: Cloud of Dust , the first studio recording from veteran bluegrass group Chris Jones & the Night Drivers in more than 10 years.
Chris Jones & the Night Drivers , made up of Ned Luberecki on ...
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George Jones
Chris Young
Aaron Tippin
The Churchmen
Lance LeRoy’s Lancer Agency has signed the bluegrass gospel band, The Churchmen .
The Lancer Agency has been a mainstay in bluegrass music for four decades. LeRoy is a member of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame, inducted ...
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Allen Shelton (1969) Photo by Fred Robbins http://frobbi.org.
Banjo great Allen Shelton died Saturday, Nov. 21, after a short battle wuith leukemia. He had been hospitalized but was released about a week before his death. He was readmitted on Thursday, slipped into unconsciousness on ...
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Blake Shelton
Summertown Road
Burlington, MA – Rounder Records is pleased to announce the release of the self titled debut album by Summertown Road on February 16. Produced by renowned bluegrass musician Don Rigsby , “ Summertown Road ” is a fresh collection of bluegrass tunes ...
