"Who Shot Lester Monroe" Blue Circle Records

Miss Dixie Hall writes a darn good e-newsletter that she always shares with BluegrassJournal.com. Her latest Good Home Grown Music News (it’s Volume 6) is full of good tidbits. Here’s an abridged look at some of them.

Melvin Goins is having his third annual Homecoming Festival in Prestonburg,Ky. on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010, at the Mountain Arts Center.

The event is in honor of our troops and veterans and is a celebration of Melvin’s induction in the IBMA Hall of Fame with the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers. The show will be recorded live on DVD to be sent to troops away from home.

This year’s lineup for the Melvin Goins Homecoming Festival includes:

• Melivn Goins & Windy Mountain
• Lost and Found
• Tommy Webb & Band
• Moron Brothers
• Tommy Brown & County Line with a tribute to Ralph Stanley
• 7-year old Kyle Ramsey (A small version of Bill Monroe)
• Coal Town Dixie
• Conley Goins with a tribute to George Jones
• CJ the Dee Jay
• Grand Finale w/All Bands

Admission is $20 in advance and $22 at the door.

Call: (606) 928-2121 or 1-888-622-2787

Appreciation Concert

Gerald Evans Jr. and Dale Vanderpool will be in the spotlight Sunday, Dec. 20, at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. Both bluegrass figures are battling cancer, and proceeds will go to help with their expenses.

Sponsorship assistance is being provided by: The Roberts Centre, WBZI Radio, Fred and Jason Baird Sound, Darrell Adkins and others.

Doors open at noon, and the shows begin half an hour later. Here’s the lineup:

• 12:30- Blue and Lonesome
• 1:00 – Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers
• 1:45- Melvin Goins and Windy Mountain
• 2:30- Lost and Found
• 3:30- Don Rigsby and Midnight Call
• 4:30- The Grascals
• 5:30- Wildwood Valley Boys
• 6:30- J.D. Crowe and the New South
• 7:30- The Larry Stephenson Band

Special Guests: Sonny Osborne, Mark Rader, Larry Cordle and Dwayne Sparks.

All seats are general admission; Cost is $20 donation for adults and teens. Those 12 and younger will be admitted free.

Donations can be mailed to:
Joe Mullins
23 E. 2nd St
Xenia, OH 45385

Make checks payable to: Benefit Fund c/o Joe Mullins.

Who Shot Lester Monroe?

After premiering at IBMA, the much anticipated bluegrass murder mystery Who Shot Lester Monroe? hit store shelves just in time for the holiday season.

Now available online and/or in store at CD Baby, Music Shed,Ernest Tubb Record Shop, and The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, or purchased directly from Tom T. and Dixie Hall’s Blue Circle Records or Good Home Grown Music sites.