Doc Watson News

New Release : The Sugar Hill 50 - The Label's Greatest Hits for $20 BMNN wrote: on Nov.

Mountain music revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show spin traditional folk and bluegrass yarns with a rock & roll attitude.

Jon Shain smiles widely when he calls this "his room." Just off the kitchen of the south Durham house he shares with his wife, Maria, and daughter, JoJo, Shain's pine-walled, rectangular workspace is lined with rows of LPs, clusters of guitars and stacks of amplifiers.

Additional acts rounding out the program for the 33rd Annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival - taking place January 29-30 at Hill Auditorium - as well as the host, have been announced.

My interview with Maria Muldaur lasted just one question. I simply asked "America's First Lady of Roots Music" why she decided to return to the jug band music that she played at the outset of her career 46 years ago.

The Seldom Scene, a Washington, D.C., institution since 1971, brings its trademark brand of bluegrass to Rams Head On Stage tomorrow night .

Revivalist string band Old Crow Medicine Show has the look and sound of a band from another era, playing a mix of country, bluegrass and Americana songs that were written decades before anyone in the band was born.

Pete Seeger leads the audience in "Amazing Grace" during the 32nd annual Ann Arbor Folk Festival last January.

The lineup for MerleFest 2010 has been released. And damn it looks good! The latest edition of MerleFest will be held April 29-May 2 at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina; get set for 75-plus acts performing the finest blend of Americana music across 15 stages.

Announcement : MerleFest 2010 Announces Line Up, Tickets on Sale November 10 BMNN wrote: on Oct.

Music tells a story -- and that's just what Doc Watson and David Holt do best. The pair will be at the Sunrise Theater Saturday, Oct.

Prescott's popular American Roots band, The Remedy, will present an afternoon concert as part of the Folk Sessions series at the Highlands Center at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct.

The Smithsonian traveling exhibition, a oeNew Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music,a will open at the Cultural Arts Studio in Troy Oct.

Old Crow Medicine, which Rolling Stone says "marries old-time string music and punk swagger," comes to Huntington's Harris Riverfront Park 8 p.m. Friday.

Announcement : Wayne Henderson and Jeff Little at Carter Fold August 29th BMNN wrote: on Aug.

Announcement : Wayne Henderson and Jeff Little at Carter Fold August 29th BMNN wrote: on Aug.

Announcement : Wayne Henderson and Jeff Little at Carter Fold August 29th BMNN wrote: on Aug.

Even these days, when electric guitars and keyboards rule and mountain music is the stuff of Smithsonian recordings and PBS specials, a banjo player is easy enough to find.

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Doc Watson is a national treasure who has carried the music of the Southern mountains all over the world and set the standard in folk music with story songs and skilled guitar playing.