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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: Museums, Human Interest, Arts, Entertainment, Travel
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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: New Products, Entertainment, Music Industry, Music, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program)
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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, Music Industry, Rockingham County (North Carolina), Music, Arts and Culture
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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...
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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...
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Bluegrass Great Earl Scruggs Dead at 88
CNNEarl 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: Steve Martin, Bluegrass (genre), Vince Gill, CNN (tv network), Louis Armstrong
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Big Baby Davis wouldn't survive in real world
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: Stan Van Gundy, College Basketball, Wrestling, Bobby Bowden, Orlando Magic
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"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. There is much more that defined the man, but most important is the hard picking banjo...
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Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88
WGN NewsBluegrass 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: Bob Dylan, Steve Martin, Awards and Prizes, Bluegrass (genre), CNN (tv network)
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Rest in peace, Earl Scruggs
Soundboard Music Blog - Orlando SentinelWith 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... -
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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: Roy Harris, Freddy Fender, Culture, Bill Cosby, The Rolling Stones (music group)
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