Larry Sparks News

Larry Sparks has announced that he will be introducing his own signature set of guitar strings.

Acoustic sounds - mandolins, dobros, guitars, basses, banjos and fiddles - combined with great harmonic voices.

If you are interested in guitar flatpicking, here is a brief intro to a complex and fascinating musical style.

By the time Larry Sparks started high school, he was a professional musician. By the time he graduated, he was playing lead guitar and singing with the legendary Clinch Mountain Boys.

News : Larry Sparks, Mike Compton Perform at Gennett Walk of Fame Induction BMNN wrote: on Aug.

Larry Sparks is coming home in September. Sparks, a nationally renowned bluegrass performer who for 20 years called Richmond home, is headlining the Starr-Gennett Foundation's Walk of Fame Music Festival on ...

Announcement : Pickin Porch presents 'An Evening with Larry Sparks' August 30th BMNN wrote: on Aug.

Named the International Bluegrass Music Association's Male Vocalist of the Year in 2004 and 2005, Larry Sparks is a legend in his own time.

News : Curly Seckler - Live and on TV BMNN wrote: on Jun. 24, 2008: Bluegrass music legend, Curly Seckler's performance, along with bluegrass band, the Steep Canyon Rangers, on Song of the Mountains PBS ...

The programme schedule includes the recording of a show taped on March 16 in Beckley, West Virginia, featuring top band Blue Highway, the inimitable Larry Sparks, award-winning banjo and slide guitar player ...

More than 40 years after beginning his career as lead singer and guitarist with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys, Larry Sparks is one of bluegrass music's grand old men.

The 30th annual Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival continues today through Sunday at the Bass Mountain Music Park near Snow Camp.

“This is so good I don't know how to deal with it! Bluegrass music has been waiting for a record like this for a long, long time.”

May is National Bluegrass Month, and the releases keep piling up. I took a bunch of new CDs with me to California last week, to keep my company while driving from L.A. to the Stagecoach festival and back. via CMT.com

The latest issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles is out, with a cover feature on Steep Canyon Rangers. via The Bluegrass Blog

The first of these is The Best Of The Vetco Years from Dave Evans & River Bend drawn from the LP's-worth of material Evans recorded for the Cincinnati-based Vetco label. via The Bluegrass Blog