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Museum's Luthier's Craft exhibit opens Saturday
The Mount Airy News, N.C.This Saturday, The Mount Airy Museum of Regional History premieres its newest traveling exhibit, The Luthier's Craft: Instrument Making Traditions of the Blue Ridge. The exhibit explores the luthier's craft of making stringed instruments and will...Tags: Entertainment, Surry County, Mount Airy, Museums, Human Interest
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Bluegrass veteran gets 'little help from his friends'
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.Even the Beatles, on occasion, needed a little help from their friends. In the world of bluegrass, veteran musician Donnie Ray Mayhew relied on his wide circle of friends to produce a new CD, titled "Long Overdue." So far, Mayhew's idea to draw on the...Tags: Entertainment, New Products, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Music Industry, Diabetes
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County music attractions featured in state guide
The Reidsville Review, N.C.Rockingham County is starting to attract attention on the state level. An event and a business here in the area were both included in a new guidebook, just released, focusing on the musical "trails" in North Carolina. Blue Ridge Music Trails of North...Tags: Entertainment, Rockingham County (North Carolina), Arts and Culture, Rockingham County (Virginia), Music Industry
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Take your picker: Student and teacher vying for bluegrass album Grammy
Chicago has gotten its bluegrass due with this year's Grammy nominations. Noam Pikelny and Greg Cahill — two players with strong local connections — are competing in the best bluegrass album category. Pikelny, a Skokie native currently based...
Tags: Grammy Awards, Entertainment, Teaching and Learning, Old Town School of Folk Music, Punch Brothers (music group)
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Buck, Elton, Whitney, JB, Dylan among Grammy Hall inductees
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticThe Recording Academy has announced its annual list of works to be entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and they include recordings by Big Mama Thornton, Buck Owens, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Richard Pryor, Whitney Houston and 22 others. As explained in...Tags: Whitney Houston, Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, DC (music group), Elton John
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Kitty Wells, the 'undisputed queen of country music,' dies at 92
Kitty Wells, the long-reigning “Queen of Country Music” and the first woman to reach No. 1 on the country chart with her attitude-changing hit “It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,” died Monday at age 92 of complications...Tags: Carrie Underwood, Entertainment, Loretta Lynn, Obituaries, Patsy Cline
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Southern California Close-up: Westside of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on Sept. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You're an outsider heading to the Westside of Los Angeles -- not the beach cities, but Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Westwood and the nearby well-heeled neighborhoods south of the Santa...Tags: Walter Matthau, Restaurants, Itzhak Perlman, Culture, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program)
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An appreciation: Doc Watson, flatpicker, song stylist, messenger
Pop & HissDoc Watson, whose guitar style was an influence on generations of folk players, died on Tuesday near his North Carolina home. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts offers an appreciation.... -
Guitarist Doc Watson dead at 89: A 1-2-3 video primer
Pop & HissGuitarist Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at age 89, leaves an extensive legacy that documents his wide-reaching influence in the world of guitar playing and folk music. Here are three video examples of his artistry in different settings.... -
An appreciation: Doug Dillard was 'my mentor,' John McEuen says
Pop & HissNitty Gritty Dirt Band's John McEuen praises banjo player Doug Dillard as "my mentor." Doug Dillard helped inspire many young fans, including McEuen and Steve Martin, to take up the banjo.... -
2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)
It’s not even June. But already this calendar year we’ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who’ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band...
Tags: Denny Doherty, Robin Gibb, Joan Rivers, Merl Saunders, Obituaries
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Doug Dillard dies at 75; banjo player, member of the Dillards band
Bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs answered a knock at the door of his Nashville home in 1953 to find an eager-looking banjo enthusiast on the porch asking Scruggs to put a set of his special tuner keys on the young man's instrument.
"He was so...Tags: Radio Industry, Steve Martin, Entertainment, Rock and Roll (genre), The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program)
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