As the second of his two ferocious sets headed into the home stretch Friday evening, Billy Strings and his band gathered around a single microphone and uncorked the instrumental fire and vocal ...
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As bluegrass lovers head to Bean Blossom this weekend for the annual Bill Monroe's Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, a treasure trove of items related to the father of bluegrass are up for sale for the ...
It’s been two years since I first saw a young bluegrass band called Crying Uncle fill Old St. Hilary’s Landmark in Tiburon with some of the most spirited and skilled acoustic string music I’d heard in ...
Uncle Monk. Who else: Dorit, Shanna Zell and Scott Stein. Where: Googie's Lounge at the Living Room, 154 Ludlow St., New York. When: 8:30 p.m. Saturday. How much: $5 suggested donation plus one-drink ...
The Kentucky property where Bill Monroe laid the foundation for bluegrass music, the genre he pioneered, is for sale. By the time he was 16, Monroe had lost both of his parents. His uncle, Pendleton ...
Bill Monroe transmuted childhood tragedy into an entirely new genre of music. The original singer of the popular Elvis Presley hit “Blue Moon of Kentucky,” Monroe blended “Scottish bagpipes and ...
The influential bluegrass fiddler Kenny Baker, a mainstay of Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys for 23 years, died July 8 in Gallatin, Tenn., after suffering a stroke. He was 85. No musician enjoyed a ...
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