Bluegrass Music News--4.22.12

Calendar for April 22-29 Evansville Courier & Press Bluegrass Music by Sassafras: 2 pm at Central Library's Browning Events Room, 200 SE MLK Blvd. (free refreshments). Call 812-428-8246. Concert: featuring singer Molly Felder, percussionist Mickey Grimm and Nashville singer/songwriter Leslie Riley, ... See all stories on this topic »

Bringing it back home Hoboken band returns to play arts festival The Hudson Reporter Although the band has become one of the loudest voices for the establishment of an Americana category for musical Emmys and has made a reputation nation wide for its mix of bluegrass, honky-tonk and rock, DSB evolved out of Hoboken and the massive ... See all stories on this topic »

Grassroots Rambos Captures Dove Awards Bluegrass Album of the Year Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News Almost four years after her home-going, Dottie Rambo was also been honored with a trophy for the Dove Award for Bluegrass Recorded Song Of The Year for her composition "Mama's Teaching Angels How To Sing" as recorded by The Isaacs on their project ... See all stories on this topic » Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News

The top 10 things in music for the week of April 22, 2012 New York Daily News Trampled by Turtles This band presents some of the most instrumentally skilled recordings in modern bluegrass. 5. Peter Gabriel "Live Blood" Gabriel's classic songs gain a greater sense of theater through Ben Foster's rigorous and looming orchestral ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Balsam Range will play benefit Thursday at Chapman Center Spartanburg Herald Journal The group has received multiple International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) award nominations the past two years, capturing the top honor for Song of the Year in 2011 with the title track from its album "Trains I Missed. See all stories on this topic »

Fiddler Mark O'Connor is changing how people play the instrument Lexington Herald Leader That was about the time O'Connor was setting out on a career that would simultaneously make him one of Nashville's most visible studio musicians and a solo artist, crafting albums that ran stylistic extremes from fusion to bluegrass to country to ... See all stories on this topic » Lexington Herald Leader

Music preview: Supergroup Nickelback is loved by fans, reviled by critics and ... Pittsburgh Post Gazette The biggest goofballs in the world are touring on a seventh album, "Here and Now," which finds the band clinging to its strict hard-rock, post-grunge formula on such songs as "This Means War" and "Bottoms Up." "I don't think like a bluegrass album is ... See all stories on this topic »

Heritage Museum of Orange County Adds Celebrity Bands to Annual Festival Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News Like an old-fashioned country hoedown, the Heritage Museum of Orange County's second annual Music and Arts Festival Saturday, June 2, promises to trigger plenty of handclapping and foot-stomping as some of America's most prominent bluegrass, ... See all stories on this topic » Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News

Out of town arts and entertainment events for April 22 Richmond Times Dispatch 29th Bluegrass & Country Music Festival: Open-to-all jam at 7 pm Thursday (free) and concerts 7-11 pm Friday and 1-11 pm Saturday at George Winn Memorial Park, Lawrenceville. On the bill are George Winn & the Bluegrass Partners, Coastline Bluegrass ... See all stories on this topic »

Stars Gather in Austin to Salute Johnny Cash RollingStone.com Sheryl Crow and Willie Nelson perform during the 'We Walk The Line: A Celebration Of The Music Of Johnny Cash' concert in Austin, Texas. By Chad Swiatecki During the final stretch of a star-studded tribute to Johnny Cash on Friday night in Austin, ... See all stories on this topic » RollingStone.com

Blogs

Levon Helm's Love of Bluegrass : Bluegrass Today By Guest Contributor They took that old hillbilly music, sped it up, and basically invented what is now bluegrass music…. We heard Bill Monroe regularly on the Grand Ole Opry, but here he was in the flesh. Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs were in the band when I saw ... Bluegrass Today

Web

MerleFest 25 - In Just One Week | Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News There will be plenty of roots, folk, Americana and bluegrass music to go around. As in previous years, the list of performers fits the "traditional plus" definition ... www.cybergrass.com/node/1168

Bluegrass Forum - Bluegrass Music Forum and Message Board for Discussion of Bluegrass Music :: View topic - Amazing artists support offer from New Music Connection - Bluegrass Works In addition to that this week's #LSJ Blog is brilliant with New Music Audio telling us about their artists support project and giving away an amazing offer to people ... www.bluegrassworks.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=86429

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Kentucky Center for Traditional Music Bluegrass Band - Take This ... Kentucky Center for Traditional Music All Ensembles Show at the KCTM Building 149 E Main ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uak-yojxMk

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