Flatt & Scruggs News

Probably the most famous bluegrass band of all time was Flatt & Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys.

Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck brings his Africa Project to Katonah on Friday for the Caramoor International Music Festival.

News : Dave Burley Wraps Up His 10th CMA Music Fest Bob_Cherry wrote: on Jun. 16, 2009: Dave Burley has a passion.

Penny is a bluegrass writer and photographer who currently manages the performance career of Curly Seckler .

Writhing on the floor, lost in jam on his guitar last month at the Wildflower Pavilion in Lyons, David Mayfield demonstrated the essence of where Cadillac Sky has taken bluegrass music.

Bluegrass and Big Band sounds will dominate the stage of the Lurman Woodland Theatre Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14 as the annual summer concert series on the grounds of Catonsville High School swings into gear.

Michael Martin Murphey hits include "Wildfire," "Cowboy Logic," "Carolina in the Pines" and "What's Forever For." The title song of his album "Geronimo's Cadillac" in 1972 was recorded by Hoyt Axton and taken up as an anthem by Native American civil rights activists.

As a boy growing up in the 1930s near Bluefield, W.Va., Melvin Goins aspired to become a lawyer, and it's easy to imagine that he would have been a good one.

While many bluegrass traditionalists still worship at the altar of Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and even Ricky Skaggs - and rightfully so - there's a new type of 'grass taking root.

News : Everett Lilly of To Receive West Virginia's 2009 Vandalia Award Today BMNN wrote: on May 23, 2009: West Virginia's Vandalia Award, the state's highest folklife honor, will be presented to Everett Lilly this evening.

Announcement : New Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs Blog Online! BMNN wrote: on May 23, 2009: Tom Thomas announced on the bluegrass list about his great new bluegrass web site -- The Flatt & Scruggs Blog Site .

The Station Inn, bottom left, is a remnant of the former industrial zone that has given way to new high rises in the trendy Nashville neighborhood the Gulch.

BORDER BASH Such a bash, it's the Border Bash. Bristol's Border Bash marks 10 years when the free monthly concert embarks on a new season May 15 in the 500 block of State Street.

New Release : Mac Wiseman Sings Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs June 2nd Bob_Cherry wrote: on May 11, 2009: Rebel Records has announced a June 2nde date for the release of a new Mac Wiseman album titled Bluegrass Hits and Heartsongs .

YELLVILLE -Popular local band South 14 is to open the 2009 Music on the Square season Saturday in Yellville.

BMNN wrote: on May 08, 2009: Sparta, Tennessee, home of bluegrass legend Lester Flatt, will celebrate the icon's memory with a special event on the city's Liberty Square on Saturday, May 23rd beginning at 11:00am. In 2007 the Tennessee State Legislature declared the 4th Saturday in May to be "Official Bluegrass Day in Tennessee" and in keeping with ...

Jim Shumate, a well-known fiddler who played with bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe, as well as Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, has been added to the lineup for the Bluegrass in Wilkes festival on Saturday.

Organizers of the annual Townsend Spring Festival are trying to validate on a couple of levels the old anti-excess maxim that "less is more." This year's festival will be only one weekend, with fewer entertainers playing longer sets.

Just received : thanks to Sean A" Beirne of Kilcar, Co. Donegal, for this information: Jerry Harmon is a native of the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.

News : Curly Seckler Joins Stepson Johnny Warren for CD Release Party BMNN wrote: on Apr.