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Monday, April 30, 2012

Bluegrass Music News--4.28.12

 
Mighty fine music
North Platte Telegraph
Born and raised in remote Isonville, Ky., Rigsby worked his way through college playing music with Charlie Sizemore. He has been a member of the Bluegrass Cardinals, played with JD Crowe and the New South, and was part of the award-winning Lonesome ...
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Stagecoach brings out best in country, bluegrass, alt-country worlds
Examiner.com
With the Stagecoach Country Music Festival happening today through Sunday after two weekends of Coachella Music & Arts Festival, the grounds of the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California are going to need major landscaping work.
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Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers to perform at Stagecoach today
AmericaJR.com
"We started learning how to play bluegrass music. Mike Guggino joined us on the weekends from Asheville, NC We had a couple of different fiddle players when we just started out. When we graduated in '99, we moved to Asheville and kept learning our ...
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RS-M students get taste of bluegrass
Aiken Standard
Ridge Spring-Monetta High School students Desmond Brown, Quintavia McField and Raheem Caldwell readily admitted they knew little about bluegrass music. During an educational outreach program Friday, they listened attentively to the music of the ...
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Colorado awash in spring, summer events
Austin American-Statesman
19: music, art, food, kids' activities, dance. maininmotion.com. Palisade Bluegrass & Roots Music Festival, Palisade (10 miles east of Grand Junction), June 15-17: bluegrass, blue, folk, Celtic music, food and wine. palisademusic.com.
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PUNCH BROTHERS
Washington Post
The music conjures seminal bluegrass traditions one moment and thoroughly modern pop, rock and chamber folk overtures the next, leaving ample space for fleet-fingered flights and exhilarating thrust. The acoustic instrumentation - mandolin, banjo, ...
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Big names, regional favorites lead Door County Auditorium fare
Green Bay Press Gazette
A country legend, a mix of bluegrass and New Orleans jazz, poetry, disco and a durable country-rock band are among the varied sounds Door Community Auditorium is presenting in its just-announced 2012 season of more than 80 performances and events ...
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Blankenship stays upbeat at bluegrass festival
North Platte Bulletin
The crowd was timid at first, but Blankenship got them clapping and singing along when his band played a bluegrass rendition of Merle Travis' classic song "Nine Pound Hammer." Blankenship admitted that the song is overplayed, but said "some things ...
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The Porchlight Sessions Bluegrass Approaching Funding Target ...
By BMNN
Bluegrass Music Legends The Porchlight Sessions feature-length Bluegrass music documentary directed by Anna Schwaber, has almost reached its crowd-source funding target of $60000. The team behind the ground-breaking documentary ...
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