Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Bluegrass Music News--4.10.12

 
Bluegrass in the pavilion: Top groups visit Flagler Museum this weekend
Palm Beach Post
By Janis Fontaine | Bluegrass | April 10, 2012 Bluegrass players like to joke that they can make hundreds of dollars a year playing bluegrass music. And it's true: Even the most famous, gifted pickers will likely never see the kind of commercial ...
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Palm Beach Post
Music Review: Trampled By Turtles takes new direction on latest album 'Stars ...
Washington Post
"Stars and Satellites," Trampled By Turtles (Thirty Tigers) "Palomino," the last album from Duluth, Minn., acoustic rockers Trampled By Turtles, was the perfect distillation of punk, rock and bluegrass, a hardcore declaration of war that caused a ...
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In the First Person: Earl Scruggs boosted bluegrass
Poughkeepsie Journal
In this June 10, 2005 file photo, Earl Scruggs, performs at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. / The Associated Press Editor's note: Jeffrey Anzevino is a guitarist and founder of the Hudson Valley Bluegrass Association.
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Bluegrass highlights April Second Sunday Folk Dance
Iron County Reporter
The magazine "Bluegrass Unlimited" called Brashear and McLaughlin "one of the great duos playing today." Seasoned performers, both Brashear and McLaughlin were International Bluegrass Music Association showcase artists in 2000 with the group Perfect ...
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Bluegrass society honours Scruggs
The Province
By Tom Harrison, The Province April 10, 2012 Dead less than a week, the influential banjo player permeated the thoughts of the 130 bluegrass fans who filled the ANZA. The first duo, Lee Watson and Ivan Rosenberg, performed a Scruggs song.
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Scruggs was a banjo maestro
Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
Even if he did nothing else – and he did plenty – bluegrass music giant Earl Scruggs will always hold a special place in the hearts of TV Land Nation for giving the world two of the best theme songs in television history: "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" ...
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Steep Canyon Rangers: Nobody Knows You
Paste Magazine
The five-man band—six, when actor Steve Martin sits in on banjo—has been reinventing bluegrass for the last decade. In the past year alone, SCR's success has reached towering heights with two impressive honors: The International Bluegrass Music ...
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Paste Magazine
South Puget Sound Live Music and DJ Calendar: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Weekly Volcano
Bluegrass Jam. All Ages. 6 pm. Big Whisky Saloon Tacoma - Downtown. Country Dance Lessons. 7:30 pm basic 8:15 pm intermediate and advance. NC. Spar Cafe Olympia. The Oly Mountain Boys. 8 pm. NC. The Deltan Club Tacoma - Downtown. Beat Fetish!
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Special Consensus Bluegrass Band
Isthmus Daily Page
The vocals are spotless, the playing as shiny as a newly minted penny, and music like this is the reason people come to love bluegrass. Special Consensus approaches this hallowed American musical form with boundless energy and an aesthetic reverence ...
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Music Review: TBT takes new tack on latest album
NewsOK.com
"Palomino," the last album from Duluth, Minn., acoustic rockers Trampled By Turtles, was the perfect distillation of punk, rock and bluegrass, a hardcore declaration of war that caused a joyously spontaneous, if gentle, mosh pit to breakout during the ...
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Blogs
 
So's your old man! : Bluegrass Today
By Chris Jones
If there's one thing I love, it's arguing about bluegrass music. Oh, it's fun to play it, and it's great to listen to it, as far as that goes, but it's just much more rewarding to treat it as a subject for debate. I know that people like Chris Pandolfi and others ...
Bluegrass Today
Bluegrass duo Dailey and Vincent to perform 2 shows at NRCC April ...
By suzanne miller
Both men were raised in musical families and have played bluegrass music since they were children. Jamie Dailey has worked with Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver as lead vocalist, baritone and tenor singer, bass player, and guitarist and has ...
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