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    May 16, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  1. 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: Arts and Culture, Museums, Travel, Music, Trips and Vacations

    2. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  2. 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: Diabetes, Music, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), New Products, Entertainment

    3. Apr 29, 2013 |Story| McClatchy-Tribune

  3. 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: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, Music, Entertainment, Rockingham County (North Carolina)

    4. Jan 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  4. 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.
    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: Politics, Entertainment, Navy Pier, Clarence Thomas, Entertainment Events

    5. May 21, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  5. 2012: The Year the Music Died (So Far)

    <span style="font-size: medium;">It&rsquo;s not even June. But already this calendar year we&rsquo;ve lost a gut-wrenching list of people who&rsquo;ve impacted the music world: impresarios Don Cornelius and Dick Clark, R&amp;B legends Johnny Otis and Etta James, the incomparable Band singer and drummer Levon Helm, bluegrass banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, amp builder Jim Marshall, Memphis Horns saxophonist Andrew Love, pop icons Whitney Houston and Davy Jones, Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, Stax bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, disco queen Donna Summer, classical art-song master Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, on and on. And, earlier this week, Robin Gibb, who&rsquo;d been battling cancer for some time.</span>
    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: Entertainment, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Les Paul, Obituaries, Milton Babbitt

    6. Mar 29, 2012 |Story| CNN

  6. Bluegrass Great Earl Scruggs Dead at 88

    Earl Scruggs, whose distinctive picking style and association with Lester Flatt cemented bluegrass music's place in popular culture, died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his son Gary Scruggs said. He was 88.
    CNN
    Earl Scruggs, whose distinctive picking style and association with Lester Flatt cemented bluegrass music's place in popular culture, died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his son Gary Scruggs said. He was 88. "I realize his popularity...

    Tags: David Letterman, Arts and Culture, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Entertainment, Louis Armstrong

    7. Mar 30, 2012 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  7. Big Baby Davis wouldn't survive in real world

    Running off at the typewriter. &#8230;
    Running off at the typewriter. … Glen "Big Baby" Davis is a living, breathing, jump-shooting, bird-shooting example of why there is a growing disconnect between fans and professional athletes. Davis was fined $35,000 earlier this week for...

    Tags: Fines, Orlando Magic, Entertainment, International Olympic Committee, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

    8. Apr 5, 2012 |Story| Interior Journal

  8. "A joyous time with the music"

    Earl Scruggs died last week and though not a Kentucky boy, his banjo playing was so elemental to what we now know as bluegrass that it defines our indigenous music.
    Earl Scruggs died last week and though not a Kentucky boy, his banjo playing was so elemental to what we now know as bluegrass that it defines our indigenous music. There is much more that defined the man, but most important is the hard picking banjo...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Bluegrass (genre), Music, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Entertainment

    9. Mar 29, 2012 |Story| WGNTV-LTV

  9. Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88

    Bluegrass legend and banjo innovator Earl Scruggs&nbsp;died of natural causes on March 28 at a Nashville hospital. He was 88-years-old.
    WGN News
    Bluegrass legend and banjo innovator Earl Scruggs died of natural causes on March 28 at a Nashville hospital. He was 88-years-old. Scruggs' son, Gary Scruggs who played the bass guitar with his father, said that he had been in failing health for some...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Chicago Tribune, Folklore and Mythology, Entertainment, Awards and Prizes

    10. Feb 2, 2012 |Story| Allentown Morning Call
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    11. Mar 29, 2012 | Orlando Sentinel

  11. Rest in peace, Earl Scruggs

    Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando Sentinel
    With apologies to Les Paul, Eric Clapton or any other guitar hero you could name, it would be well nigh impossible to find anyone who singularly became identified with a musical genre and a particular instrument more than Earl Scruggs. Scruggs and his...
    12. Nov 22, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Grammy Hall 2012 inductees named

    LOS ANGELES - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rolling Stones' “Exile on Main St.,” Bill Cosby's “I Started Out as a Child” comedy album and musicologist Harry Smith's widely influential “Anthology of American Folk Music”...

    Tags: Tina Turner, Arts and Culture, Serge Koussevitzky, Concerts, Entertainment

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Earl Scruggs, banjo and bluegrass legend, passed away M...
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