Archive for March 10th, 2008

With new CD out, Krugers head to Europe

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
March 10, 2008

While the Kruger Brothers’ new CD, “The Suite,” is just reaching retail outlets, the brothers are on tour this month in their native Europe, including a couple of concerts in their Switzerland homeland. Some of the dates are already sold out.
The tour started last week and will wind down March 18 at Klub Mlejn [...]

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Kaufman, heroes pack new CD with 18 tunes

Category: CD Release

By Dan Tackett
March 10, 2008

Steve Kaufman – “Mystique”
Flatpicking guitar master Steve Kaufman’s latest CD, “Mystique,” contains a couple of firsts.
Track No. 1, “Classical Gas,” which became an unlikely rock hit in the late 1960s for guitarist Mason Williams, is the first fingerpicking tune Kaufman learned. “Mystique’s” final track, “Black Mountain Rag,” is the first flatpicking tune Kaufman mastered.
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S. Carolina festival is a salute to Don Reno

Category: Festival News

By Dan Tackett
March 10, 2008

Don Reno
Website:
www.renofest.com
Dates:
March 21-23, 2008
Lineup Highlights

Ronnie Reno and New Tradition
Dailey & Vincent
The Grascals
Wayne Henderson and Friends
Movin’On Bluegrass

More Info.
(888) 427-8720 or
Judi@renofest.com
Every year for the past decade, South Carolina has tipped its hat to and remembered the late bluegrass legend Don Reno.
It’s called RenoFest, started in 1998 as a one-day concert in Hartsville, S.C. Since then, [...]

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