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5 days ago · Ricky Skaggs, American mandolin and fiddle virtuoso, singer, and music producer who played a leading role in the New Traditionalist movement of the 1980s by adapting bluegrass music’s instrumentation and sensibility to mainstream country music. Learn more about his life, music, and career.
- Barry Mazor
4 days ago · Americana music incorporates elements of country music, bluegrass, folk, blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, roots rock and southern soul and is overseen by the Americana Music Association and the Americana Music Honors & Awards.
- Country and western
- 1920s, Southern United States
3 days ago · Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country, bluegrass, and rock singer, songwriter, and musician. He began in a number of local bluegrass bands in the 1970s, and from 1978 to 1982, he achieved his first mainstream attention as lead singer of the soft rock band Pure Prairie League.
1 day ago · For local bluegrass bands, it's all about the instruments. For Hwy 41 South, Tammy Dockery plays bass, Clint Dockery plays fiddle, Donnie Harvey plays banjo, Dave Beaumont plays guitar and Mark Horn plays the mandolin. From left, Bobby Martin, Doug Rowe, Chris Bryson, J.R. Davis and Alan Colpitts are members of the Swinging Bridge bluegrass band.
5 days ago · Mills, 57, reportedly passed away following a heart attack at his home on Friday, May 3. Jim Mills, nicknamed Smilin’ Jim, was known as one of the best banjo players in the industry, as evidenced by his six Grammy Awards and six IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Banjo Player of the Year trophies.
5 days ago · Some 400 people (in a village of 900) came out to the event. Sitting in lawn chairs or blankets on the lawn across from Lou Mac Park, they listened to the band from Norway, and their newly awarded 2022 IBMA vocalist of the year, sing bluegrass on a bright, sunny day. All told, the crowd raised over $6,000 for Dottie’s scholarship fund.
3 days ago · The Bachelor of Arts in Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies, offered by East Tennessee State University, is as an Appalachian Studies major and thus not included in East Tennessee State University’s music accreditation.
