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MerleFest is an annual "traditional plus" music festival held in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on the campus of Wilkes Community College.The festival, which is held the last weekend in April, was hosted by Grammy Award winner Doc Watson prior to his death and is named in memory and honor of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, [1] who died in a farm tractor accident in 1985.
Artists who were scheduled to perform at the festival were invited to return for the 2021 edition. [ 37 ] In March 2021, Rhode Island governor Dan McKee announced that the state was working with the Newport Festivals Foundation to hold the folk and jazz festivals in the summer with modified capacities and a different format. [ 38 ]
Formed in November 2005, following the members' attendance at the first Black Banjo Gathering, held in Boone, North Carolina, in April 2005, the group grew out of the success of Sankofa Strings, an ensemble that featured Dom Flemons on bones, jug, guitar, and four-string banjo, Rhiannon Giddens on banjo and fiddle and Súle Greg Wilson on bodhrán, brushes, washboard, bones, tambourine, banjo ...
A masked rioter in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) A lot of attendees are believed to have peeled off as the siege turned violent.
Jeff White (born August 2, 1957) is an American bluegrass guitarist/mandolinist, songwriter, record producer and sound mixer. Jeff White has performed and produced albums with many artists including: Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, The Chieftains, Lyle Lovett, Tim O'Brien, The Travelin' McCourys, Michael Cleveland and The Earls Of Leicester.
Summer Tour 2021: July 23, 2021 — The Dead: Wave That Flag Tour: August 17, 2004 Warren Haynes Band Dead & Company: Summer Tour 2018: June 9, 2018 — Fall Tour 2021: August 16, 2021 — The Final Tour: Summer 2023: June 1, 2023 — Def Leppard: Seven Day Weekend Tour: September 7, 1993 — Slang World Tour: July 26, 1996 Tripping Daisy: X ...
Broadway shows took in $845.4 million for the just-ended season, well short of $1.83 billion of 2018-19
Strait drew 110,905 fans to Kyle Field at Texas A&M in College Station on June 15, smashing the Grateful Dead's 1977 peak.