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Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine August 2018, Volume 53, Number 2 The new $15 million Bluegrass Music Hall Of Fame & Museum is set to open October 18 this year. After a $100 million riverfront rebuild, Owensboro, Ky., is a new city and destination. To borrow an oft-used phrase, in the minds of bluegrass lovers,…

Reprinted from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine May 1989, Volume 23, Number 11 Everyone chooses favorites and of all the Gibson banjos termed ‘prewar,’ the wreath pattern RB-3 with flat tone ring stands out as my all-time choice. There is a quality combining the delicate mother-of-pearl inlays, serviceable mahogany wood and nickel-plating, that is significant considering the…

2024 Workshops and Camps Are you looking to attend a music camp or workshop this year?   Camps and workshops are a great way to study with top professional players and talented instructors.  Camps and workshops also provide you the opportunity to meet new friends and jamming partners.  Below is a list of camps and…

It’s always exciting when an eminently talented newcomer like Ellis emerges on the scene.  This East Tennessee mandolin prodigy wrote these instrumental tunes when he was just twelve years old and recorded them only a year or so later.  As a reference point, he picked up the instrument at age ten and not long afterward…

A Kentucky native, Adkins has had an impressive career in bluegrass music since he started playing the music at Dollywood when he was just seventeen years old.  During this growing period, he played country music and also toured with a rock band from Chicago. For a few years he also was a disc jockey at…

You could call Kyle Tuttle, longtime member of Molly Tuttle’s band Golden Highway, the Jimi Hendrix of the banjo. On his second album of mostly original songs (based on what he describes in the accompanying press material “the ups and downs of love and loss [and] … some very high times and some very low…