My wife and I first drove up the steep hill to the top of the Wilkes Community College campus in late April of 2003. We had heard of the groundbreaking music festival known as MerleFest several years earlier, but now we […]
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Genius has within it the seeds of its own destruction. Bill Monroe labored for years to find and develop a musical sound he heard in his head. He experimented throughout his sojourn in the industrial necklace around the Great Lakes […]
Special to the Wheeling Daily Register, Jan. 20, 1894: WILD E, W. Va., January 19. – John Hardy, for killing Thomas Drews, both colored, was hung at 2:09 p.m. to-day. Three thousand people witnessed his death. His neck was broken and […]
Just about 70 years ago today, December 8, 1945, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs first stepped on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, and a storm erupted. For years, Bill Monroe had been […]
IBMA World of Bluegrass, Raleigh, NC 10/3/2015
Day 2 at RockyGrass on July 25, 2015, in Lyons, Colorado, featured sets by I’m With Her: Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, Del & Dawg (Del McCoury and David Grisman), Sam Bush and The HillBenders. http://tinyurl.com/poy2g2r
Day 2 at RockyGrass on July 25, 2015, in Lyons, Colorado, featured sets by I’m With Her: Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, Del & Dawg (Del McCoury and David Grisman), Sam Bush and The HillBenders. http://tinyurl.com/poy2g2r
On most spring days in 1925, my grandfather rode his swayback mare from his family’s cabin along the Little River across the Alum Ridge to the Stony Point school, a one-room schoolhouse on the road to Copper Valley. Not far […]
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