The Stanley Brothers News

He was raised in a bluegrass world, so it might seem that Aaron 'Woody' Wood was destined for a musical career playing banjo or fiddle.

We have just learned that Jack Cooke, long-time member of Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, passed away last night after suffering a massive heart attack.

Melvin Goins is unabashedly old school when it comes to playing bluegrass music.

Central Wisconsin bluegrass band Art Stevenson & High Water will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Theater @1800 . Since 1993, High Water has been one of the Midwest's most popular and sought-after bluegrass acts.

For more than 30 years, Estil Cortez Ball and his wife, Orna, sang country and gospel music for the people of Virginia and North Carolina, in churches and on the radio, serving only the songs and their Lord.

The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail has developed two informative traveling exhibits that will be available beginning in 2010 to communities in The Crooked Road region, which includes Rocky Mount and Franklin County.

Not really sure whether it's our alcohol mixture, some pharmacological imbalance our sex life or just male menopausal phenomena, but lately Lonesome, Onry and Mean has been on an evil bluegrass jag.

Wired magazine's Epicenter blog recently ran a story about an impending time bomb written into the Copyright Act of 1976 .

Announcement : Charlie Sizemore at Ralph Stanley Music Center December 5th BMNN wrote: on Nov.

Letterman has dubbed this week as Country Music Week on The Late Show , with musical performances each night from prominent Nashville entertainers.

Bluegrass music veterans Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers will bring their brand of high-energy picking and singing to the stage at the Isaacs Performing Arts Center in the Old Hitchins School on Friday.

IE: Is there still passionate debate about what does and doesn't constitute bluegrass ? David Grisman : I imagine so, in some circles at least.

Man of Constant Sorrow: The Life and Times of a Music Legend By Dr. Ralph Stanley Gotham Books, 320 pp., $26 When he was a child, he was often called "the boy with the hundred-year-old voice." At 82, Dr.

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 21, 2009: Emerging from the Stanley Brothers' Clinch Mountain Boys band, Larry Sparks carries on with the sounds created by Bluegrass music's first generation and has always intended to let his music speak for itself - but for those who listen, it has told a story that runs like an unbroken thread through more than 40 years of ...

High Country this Saturday, October17, at 7:30 p.m. Bluegrass Back by popular demand! If you love the down home country sound of Bluegrass, then don't miss this fantastic band.

Phoenix-based Tangled Strings Bluegrass Band will kick off the Rec Centers' free Concert in the Park Series at 7 p.m. Oct.

There are times that no matter how daunting the task, you have to do it yourself.

Patty Loveless: "The song is the character you become. I've either lived it or been associated with it." Details: Patty Loveless 8 p.m. Thursday, September 17.

The music I have played and enjoyed the most in the past three years is, of all things, a three-CD collection from Time Life titled "The Stanley Brothers: The Definitive Collection ." It is fundamental American music: rural bluegrass with a tapestry of strings beneath vocals seemingly made whole cloth out of the dirt, water, and foliage of the ...

There are times that no matter how daunting the task, you have to do it yourself.