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    Sam Bush Band tours extensively, appearing at many small venues and large festivals such as the Strawberry Music Festival (Memorial Day and Labor Day), Rockygrass (late July), and every spring at the Americana Festival, Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Sam Bush is known as one of the liveliest performers at these festivals, and makes ...

  2. There is only one Sam Bush. On a Bowling Green, Kentucky cattle farm in the post-war 1950s, Bush grew up an only son, and with four sisters. His love of music came immediately, encouraged by his parents’ record collection and, particularly, by his father Charlie, a fiddler, who organized local jams.

  3. Bush got his first mandolin in 1964 at age 11, a Gibson A-50 model. A year or so later, in response to an advertisement in Sing Out! magazine, 13-year-old Sam attended the first multi-day bluegrass festival which was held in Fincastle, Virginia. The main impetus for his attending was to be around other mandolin players.

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  5. Jan 10, 2019 · Bluegrass legends of the new and old schools: Sam Bush performs with Del McCoury. The documentary covers all Bush’s basics — from his childhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his early aspiration to be a prize-winning fiddle player, and on to his initial triumph in the junior division of the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest.

  6. Sam Bush. Sam Bush extended the musical capabilities of the mandolin and the fiddle to incorporate a seamless blend of bluegrass, rock, jazz, and reggae. As the founder and leader of the New Grass Revival, Bush pioneered and guided the evolution of modern hill country music. Together with the bluegrass supergroup Strength in Numbers, he pushed ...

  7. On his own, he has continued to explore an eclectic musical spectrum, topping the U.S. bluegrass, folk, and country charts with efforts like King of My World (2004), Storyman (2016), and Radio John: Songs of John Hartford (2022). Bush was exposed to country music and bluegrass at an early age through his father's record collection and, later ...

  8. Nov 1, 2018 · Sam Bush’s deep body of work is put in the spotlight with the release of Revival: The Sam Bush Story, a documentary released Thursday (Nov. 1), via Amazon.

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