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    May 11, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  1. Mandolin Man: a documentary about the Punch Brothers at Real Art Ways

    <strong><span style=&quot;font-size: small;">How to Grow a Band</span></strong>
    How to Grow a Band May 11&12, and 18 & 19, Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, (860) 232-1006, realartways.org For anyone looking to gain practical music-business insights from watching How to Grow a Band — a new documentary about the Punch...

    Tags: Led Zeppelin (music group), John Paul Jones, Punch Brothers (music group), Real Art Ways, Carnegie Hall

    2. Jun 19, 2012 |Story| Daily Press

  2. Chesapeake gospel group Paschall Brothers win National Endowment for the Arts fellowship

    <strong>The Paschall Brothers</strong>, an a cappella gospel quartet based in Chesapeake with ties to Newport News, has won a prestigious prize from the National Endowment for the Arts.
    The Paschall Brothers, an a cappella gospel quartet based in Chesapeake with ties to Newport News, has won a prestigious prize from the National Endowment for the Arts. The group, led by the Rev. Tarrence Paschall, will receive one of nine 2012 NEA...

    Tags: George Washington University, The Rolling Stones (music group), Johnny Lewis, Culture, Bob Dylan

    3. Apr 5, 2012 |Story| Interior Journal

  3. "A joyous time with the music"

    Earl Scruggs died last week and though not a Kentucky boy, his banjo playing was so elemental to what we now know as bluegrass that it defines our indigenous music.
    Earl Scruggs died last week and though not a Kentucky boy, his banjo playing was so elemental to what we now know as bluegrass that it defines our indigenous music. There is much more that defined the man, but most important is the hard picking banjo...

    Tags: The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Arts and Culture, Music, Respiratory Disease, Earl Scruggs

    4. Mar 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Earl Scruggs dies at 88; banjo legend was half of Flatt & Scruggs

    Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast, hoping to audition.
    Bill Monroe, the man widely acknowledged as the father of bluegrass music, was in search of a new banjo player for his famed Blue Grass Boys when a young musician turned up backstage at Nashville's celebrated Ryman Auditorium during a 1945 Grand Ole...

    Tags: Joan Baez, Elton John, Health, Heart Attack, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program)

    5. Apr 20, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Levon Helm dies at 71; drummer and singer with the Band

    Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: &quot;Up On Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Don't Do It," earthy and infectious conglomerations of gospel, country, blues, folk and rock music.
    Levon Helm is most widely known for the songs he sang that found their way onto the pop charts during his long tenure as drummer and singer for the Band: "Up On Cripple Creek," "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" and "Don't Do It," earthy and infectious...

    Tags: Led Zeppelin (music group), Health, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson

    6. Mar 28, 2012 |Story| WDBJ7

  6. Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at age 88

    Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who teamed helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88.
    Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who teamed helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88. Scruggs' son Gary said his father passed away Wednesday morning at a...
    7. Mar 29, 2012 |Story| WGNTV-LTV

  7. Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88

    Bluegrass legend and banjo innovator Earl Scruggs&nbsp;died of natural causes on March 28 at a Nashville hospital. He was 88-years-old.
    WGN News
    Bluegrass legend and banjo innovator Earl Scruggs died of natural causes on March 28 at a Nashville hospital. He was 88-years-old. Scruggs' son, Gary Scruggs who played the bass guitar with his father, said that he had been in failing health for some...

    Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Bob Dylan, CNN (tv network), Earl Scruggs, Folklore and Mythology

    8. Jan 24, 2012 |Story| WTXX-LTV

  8. Album of the Day 1/24/12: William Elliot Whitmore - Field Songs

    People talk all the time about artists painting a picture of a certain place or people with their songs.&nbsp; Few artists actually do it well and even fewer do it as well as William Elliot Whitmore.
    People talk all the time about artists painting a picture of a certain place or people with their songs.  Few artists actually do it well and even fewer do it as well as William Elliot Whitmore. According to his bio, William Elliot Whitmore was born...

    Tags: Fine Artists, Country and Western (genre), Music, Arts and Culture, Music

    9. Feb 10, 2012 |Story| WGNTV-LTV

  9. 2012 Grammy award nominees: Who will win?

    Check out the complete list of nominees for this&nbsp;year's Grammy Awards. Tune in on Sunday February 12 at 8/7c to see if your predictions were right.
    WGN News
    Check out the complete list of nominees for this year's Grammy Awards. Tune in on Sunday February 12 at 8/7c to see if your predictions were right.     Record Of The Year Rolling In The Deep Adele Holocene Bon Iver Grenade Bruno Mars The Cave...

    Tags: John Corigliano, Maroon 5 (music group), Alison Krauss, Christian McBride, Zooey Deschanel

    10. Dec 18, 2011 | Allentown Morning Call

  10. Banjo player great at Listen Live! Music, but something else made the show

    Lehigh Valley Music
    Banjo extraordinaire Tony Trischka was certainly that – extraordinary – at Listen Live! Music’s final show Saturday at the location at which it was founded Upper Milford Township Municipal Center. But what made the show so enjoyable...
    11. Mar 28, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Earl Scruggs, bluegrass legend, dies at age 88

    Pop & Hiss
    Earl Scruggs: Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs has died at 88....
    12. Mar 28, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Earl Scruggs: Remembering a bluegrass and American music legend

    Pop & Hiss
    Remembering bluegrass banjo player Earl Scruggs, who died on Wednesday at age 88. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts explores the legendary American musician's influence....
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