Ralph Stanley News

There was something very special about seeing Ralph Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys open the Odeum Stage on Independence Day.

A curious contingent of British acts that includes Marianne Faithfull, Billy Bragg, Nick Lowe, Robyn Hitchcock and World Party will help the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9 festival once again live up to its forward-thinking moniker.

Dayton has a date with banjo royalty this weekend when two superstars of the instrument visit the city to perform at the 2009 Cityfolk Festival.

Western North Carolina ensemble Balsam Range announced their debut with authority on 2007's acclaimed "Marching Home." That album originated as a solo effort for fiddler and versatile singer Buddy Melton.

Two members of bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley's band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, were injured in a serious car accident in North Carolina early Monday.

News : Clinch Mountain Boys Hit by Drunk Driver Are OK BMNN wrote: on Jun. 23, 2009: A speeding drunk driver is blamed for an accident involving Leslie Brown, Dewey Brown and Nathan Stanley.

" An eclectic trio of cultural icons met on Wednesday to become part of Eric C. Conn's campaign to be appointed to President Barack Obama's Social Security Advisory Board.

Kody Norris and Tom Isaacs have been playing bluegrass together since the late 1990s.

The eight-day Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival opens Saturday and seems destined to close on a high note.

Raleigh, N.C.'s Chatham County Line breaks in the Sunken Garden Sundays series in Radford.

Ashe County native Ola Belle Reed and bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley are just two of the music legends slated to be inducted during the 2nd Annual Blue Ridge Music Hall induction ceremony.

Country music, as any lover of the genre will tell you, is not what it used to be.

The sweet sounds of bluegrass music will fill Cole Auditorium at Richmond Community College on June 5 when Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys perform in concert.

The Isaacs will be bringing their unique, popular musical style to Rector as part of the Aug.

Dayton's best festival is the Cityfolk Festival, the music extravaganza held downtown at River Scape Metropark each 4th of July weekend.

Dan Tyminski found his first guitar, a 1946 D28 Herringbone Martin, at the former Bass Mountain Music Festival in the early 1990s.

Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys with Elizabeth LaPrell The "living patriarch of bluegrass" , the legendary Ralph Stanley is a link to the origins of bluegrass, his pure, honest music rooted deep in the Appalachians and in the mists of centuries past.

When the legendary Dr. Ralph Stanley takes the stage of the Cole Auditorium with his Clinch Mountain Boys on June 5 those in attendance will see the man who some say legitimized bluegrass music as an art form.

The festival also features Buddy Greene and Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out, the Whitetop Mountain Band, Hagar's Mountain Boys and Hominy Valley Boys.

Festival ends great year And now for something completely different. That could have been the motto of this year's Daytona Beach International Festival, which ended last weekend.