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In addition to live concerts, [29] WBCM-LP will air a revival of the Radio program "Farm and Fun Time". [11] [30] "Farm and Fun Time" aired on WCYB Radio (now WZAP) during the 1940s through the 1960s. [31] [32] Each edition of the program is broadcast live from The Birthplace of Country Music museum. [33]
New Grass Revival was an American progressive bluegrass band founded in 1971, and composed of Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, John Cowan, Béla Fleck and Pat Flynn. They were active between 1971 and 1989, releasing more than twenty albums as well as six singles.
William "Dave" Evans (July 24, 1950 - June 26, 2017) was a tenor singer, banjo player, composer, and bluegrass band leader. He was noted for his powerful tenor vocal range and for his style which bridged traditional and contemporary bluegrass. [3]
Of course, bluegrass connected him to Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, Stanley and a brief but groundbreaking tenure with Kentucky banjo great J.D. Crowe before a late ’70s stay in Emmylou Harris’ Hot ...
Traditional bluegrass, as the name implies, emphasizes the traditional elements of bluegrass music, and stands in contrast to progressive bluegrass.Traditional bluegrass musicians play folk songs, tunes with simple traditional chord progressions, and on acoustic instruments of a type that were played by bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys band in the late 1940s.
The song was popular among old-time musicians of the Cumberlands before being widely adopted in the bluegrass repertoire. [4] Many variants of "Shady Grove" exist (up to 300 stanzas by the early 21st century). [5] The lyrics describes "the true love of a young man's life and his hope they will wed," [6] and it is sometimes identified as a ...
Sep. 1—The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum will celebrate the Labor Day holiday in style with its "Hall of Fame Homecoming Weekend" today, Sept. 1 and Saturday. The two-day event will be ...
Billy Strings was born William Lee Apostol on October 3, 1992, in Lansing, Michigan.His father died of a heroin overdose when he was two, and his mother remarried Terry Barber, an accomplished amateur bluegrass musician, whom Strings regards as his father.