Archive for March 7th, 2008

Berklee school will confer degree on Skaggs

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
March 7, 2008

Ricky Skaggs
Is Doctor Skaggs in?
That will be an appropriate question later this month when Ricky Skaggs is conferred with an honorary doctorate of music from the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston.
The degree will be awarded March 18 as part of Skaggs’ performance on the Tuesday Night Opry at the Grand Ole Opry house [...]

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Tune In To Dailey & Vincent on XM’s Bluegrass Junction Studio Special Series

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
March 7, 2008

Dailey & Vincent’s Opry Debut – photo by Chris Hollo / Hollo Photographics
Nashville, Tenn. — Rounder Records duo Dailey & Vincent will be this week’s special guests of host Kyle Cantrell on the XM Bluegrass Junction Studio Special Series, beginning tomorrow, March 7, at 8 a.m. (EST) on XM 14.
Encore times are as follows:

Saturday, March [...]

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WDVX to feature “The Two-Man Gentlemen Band” on the Blue Plate Special

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
March 7, 2008

“William Howard Taft” The Two-Man Gentlemen Show
The Two-Man Gentlemen Band will be dishing out a heaping helping of original music from their latest release Heavy Petting (Serious Business Records) on WDVX’s “Blue Plate Special.”
The group will perform on the Wednesday, March 12 edition of the Blue Plate Special. The Blue Plate begins at [...]

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Donna Ulisse to guest on XM’s “Open Road” Channel 171 this Sunday

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
March 7, 2008

Donna Ulisse and “America’s Truckin’ Sweetheart” Marcia Campbell, host of XM radio’s Open Road on channel 171 in the studio.
Donna Ulisse recently spent an hour in the XM Satellite studios with “America’s Truckin’ Sweetheart” Marcia Campbell, host of the popular show for truckers, Open Road on XM Channel 171. Campbell played several tracks off [...]

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Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival just around the corner

Category: Festival News

By Travis Tackett
March 7, 2008

Rhonda Vincent
In less than 4 weeks, award-winning Bluegrass acts will be heading the buses and vans towards Wilimington, OH., to take the stage at the 2008 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival, March 28 & 29, , at the Roberts Convention Centre in Wilmington. This is one of southwest Ohio’s most entertaining acoustic music events, [...]

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