John McEuen has asked a group of friends from varying genres of music to join him in celebrating his 70th birthday in Nashville.
The String Wizard is bringing what he is calling his “Music City Jam and Christmas Show” to Music City Roots at The Factory in Franklin on December 16.
You might say that Mac Wiseman, "The Voice with a Heart," has seen it all when it comes to Bluegrass and Country Music. He has witnessed at least seven decades of music history firsthand.
At one time, as a member of The Blue Grass Boys, he was on hand as Hank Williams Sr. debuted on the Grand Ole Opry - setting an Opry record to be the first ever to receive six ovations.
The Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center presents Dr. Stanley's 88th birthday bash on Saturday, February 21st. (his actual birthday is February 25th).
This special birthday event is hosted by the museum and center each year in celebration of Dr. Stanley’s life and work.
“I’m here as a friend and a fan,” Grand Ole Opry star Jan Howard declared to a crowd of Jesse McReynolds’ closest friends and family on July 13th, 2014, in Gallatin, Tennessee.
It probably rolled out the factory doors and into the showroom around the time of Bluegrass Icon Larry Sparks’ birth (Sept. 25, 1947).
This 1948 Plymouth 2-door coupe didn’t know then and neither did Larry that some 66 years later their paths would come together.
Bill Monroe Birthday Celebration, hosted by Laurie Lewis
Wednesday, September 12th at 8pm numerous bluegrass, folk and roots artists will get together at Berkley’s Freight and Salvage to help celebrate another Bill Monroe Birthday anniversary.
The event will feature Alice Gerrard, Butch Waller, Tom Rozum, Blaine Sprouse and Peter Feldman, Tom and Patrick Sauber, Chad Manning, Sharon Gilchrist, Master of Ceremonies Tony Marcus, and a very Special Guest! [Read below for a video of the first event.]
Happy (belated) 83rd Birthday to Bluegrass Hall of Famer Jesse McReynolds (July 9).
Here he is with fellow Hall of Famer and old friend, Curly Seckler, at a birthday party held at the Pick Inn, in Gallatin, Tenn.
Jesse McReynolds, along with his late brother Jim McReynolds, formed the bluegrass band Jim and Jesse in approximately 1947. In 2002, both brothers were diagnosed with different types of cancer. Jesse's battle was successful, but Jim's was not. He died in 2002, ending the longest active professional brother duet in country music history - 55 years.
he got the nickname "Doc" during a live radio broadcast when the announcer remarked that his given name Arthel was odd and he needed an easy nickname to go by. A fan in the crowd shouted "Call him Doc!" presumably in reference to the Sherlock Holmes sidekick Doctor Watson. The name stuck ever since ...(from Wikipedia) Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. He has won seven Grammy awards as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Watson's flatpicking skills and knowledge of traditional American music are highly regarded. Here he picks a well known bluegrass standard, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down".
Beginning in 1957, Bill Emerson established himself as a banjo virtuoso and history maker alike! A founding member of the famed bluegrass ensemble "The Country Gentlemen", billed as a featured artist while with "Jimmy Martin" during the height of that bluegrass legend's career, the man who introduced the classic "Fox on the Run" to bluegrass, founder and shaper of "Country Current" the world renowned bluegrass ensemble of the United States Navy Band.  |
| Bill with the Country Gentlemen, Webster, Mass. 1971 from: Bill Emerson Photo Album |
