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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Bluegrass Music News--4.20.12

 
Reviews of bluegrass music releases
NOLA.com
Fans of Brand New Strings' 2010 debut album "No Strings Attached," which garnered a lot of attention in bluegrass circles, have waited two years for the next release. It's a seven-song EP (extended play) that just whets the appetite for more.
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At a retirement home, a bluegrass jam session
Washington Post (blog)
The hour-plus jams have taken place every few months at Riderwood for eight years, having started in a little classroom that quickly proved too little for the booming demand of retirees for downhome bluegrass music. A bigger venue near the dining room ...
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With 10 days left The Porchlight Sessions is over 60% funded and is appealing ...
PR Web (press release)
The Porchlight Sessions feature-length Bluegrass music documentary directed by Anna Schwaber, has ten days left to reach its crowd-source funding target of $60000. UK-based banjo retailer Banjos Direct, who are associate producers and sponsors of the ...
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Moonshiner's Daughter a lively family affair
Owen Sound Sun Times
By BILL HENRY If they weren't making music around the microphone, it would be a kitchen table, or a campfire. A family band by birth and by marriage, Moonshiner's Daughter plays bluegrass music, with a twist of folk and more than a hint of old-time ...
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The Mountain Music Project Releases Film, CD, 6/5
Broadway World
The CD entitled "The Mountain Music Project: A Musical Odyssey from Appalachia to Himalaya" is a collaboration of the Nepali/Himalayan traditional music of the Gandharba, or musician caste, and the Bluegrass/Old Time musics of the Appalachian mountain ...
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Levon Helm, drummer and singer with the Band, dies at 71
Orlando Sentinel
His father was a cotton farmer who also enjoyed playing music. At 6, he experienced his first live music event, a performance by bluegrass music patriarch Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. "This really tattooed my brain," he recalled.
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What's happening this weekend in the Yakima Valley: Friday, April 20
Yakima Herald-Republic
He's performed at Lollapalooza, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Bonnaroo and the CMA Music Festival, and now he's coming to Yakima. He's Dierks Bentley, and he's bringing his Country & Cold Cans Tour to the Yakima Valley SunDome tonight at 8.
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Take a bite out of summer festivals
Fayetteville Observer
Cashiers Mountain Music Festival: June 30-July 1. Bluegrass and mountain music will be on tap at this blossoming festival in Cashiers, which will be headlined by Grammy Award-winning bluegrass superstar Tony Rice. Call 828-743-5191 or go to ...
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Americana Artist Levon Helm Passes After Battle with Cancer ...
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Saturday night, barn kickin' bluegrass music comes to Pacifica with ...
Carter and Ralph Stanley, aka the Stanley Brothers, played a mountain bluegrass style so legendary that they were inducted in the Preservation Hall of Greats in ...
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Don Williams cuts Ronnie Bowman song : Bluegrass Today
Congratulations to bluegrass' very own Ronnie Bowman, whose What If It Worked Liked That is not only included on the album, but is the first song released to ...
bluegrasstoday.com/.../don-williams-cuts-ronnie-bowman-son...

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