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The inaugural festival, held at Freebody Park, included Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, the Kingston Trio, John Jacob Niles, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Odetta, The New Lost City Ramblers, and more. Perhaps the most notable performance was the surprise debut of the eighteen-year-old Joan Baez , who was brought on as a guest of Bob Gibson .
Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously ...
Scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 10, the festival that surrounds the Earl Scruggs Center block and spills onto Graham Street will be larger, longer and louder than previous festivals.
Special homage will be played to bluegrass standard-bearers Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs, both of whom were born 100 years ago. Marcia Ball will lead a rousing slate of Bayou Boogiers honoring the ...
Advance tickets sold for $15, while tickets cost $20 at the gate. The Ozark Music Festival was hosted by the popular radio personality, Wolfman Jack. Among its top billed performers were Bachman Turner Overdrive, America, the Eagles, the Earl Scruggs Revue, and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Bluegrass banjoist Earl Scruggs delivered a memorable performance of "Cumberland Gap" at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959. [11] The song has since been recorded and performed by dozens of bluegrass, country, and folk musicians, including the 2nd South Carolina String Band's rendition of the Civil War lyrics.
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