Archive for November 2007

Honi Deaton to play new Ohio opry

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
November 19, 2007

Honi Deaton
The Glass City Opry, a new bluegrass music venue in the Toledo, Ohio area, is sponsoring its first national touring act in concert next month.
Honi Deaton and Dream will perform at 7 p.m.. Dec. 10 at the opry’s home, the Maumee Indoor Theater. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are being sold in [...]

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White tipping his hat to Bill Monroe

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
November 16, 2007

Roland White
Roland White is holding his annual Bill Monroe Appreciation Nights Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at the famous Station Inn in downtown Nashville, Tenn.
Kathy Chiavola with an all star band will perform the Kentucky Waltz with Nashville Bluegrass Band staple Pat Enright.
Other first-night performers include The Roland White Band, Barbara Lamb & Megan Lynch, [...]

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Foundation for Bluegrass Music Formed

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
November 16, 2007

With the encouragement and support of IBMA, a new non-profit charitable organization, the “Foundation for Bluegrass Music” has been created to serve as an “umbrella” under which funds can be placed and disbursed to support educational, literary and artistic activities of public benefit. The foundation was recently incorporated in Tennessee and is in the process [...]

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Hazel Dickens Among Inaugural Inductees Into The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
November 15, 2007

Hazel Dickens
Burlington, MA - Renowned folk/bluegrass artist Hazel Dickens will be honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, Friday, November 16, at The Cultural Center in Charleston, WV.
Considered one of the most influential and powerful artists, male or female, in the world of Americana music, Dickens will [...]

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Bluegrass on the Grand Ole Opry this week

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
November 15, 2007

IIIrd Tyme Out
Friday November 16
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press - 8:00-8:30
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver - 9:00-9:30
Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys - 9:30-10:00
Saturday November 17
Mike Snider - 6:30-7:00 & 9:30-10:00
IIIrd Tyme Out - 8:00-8:30 & 10:30-11:00
Jesse McReynolds & The Virginia Boys - 8:30-9:00
Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press - 10:00-10:30
The Grand Ole [...]

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