Posts Tagged ‘ Earl Scruggs ’

Bluegrass Festival and Events calendar - June 26

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
June 26, 2008

Tennessee
June 26 — Earl Scruggs with Family and Friends with The Infamous Stringdusters - Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman - Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn. Tickets are available for $24.50. The Ryman auditorium is located at 116 Fifth Ave. North. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster, The Ryman Box Office, online at Ryman.com or call 615-458-BLUE.
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Dailey, Vincent pay homage to Bean Blossom fans

Category: Spotlight

By Dan Tackett
June 25, 2008

Dailey & Vincent on stage at the 2008 Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Photo by Dan Tackett.
The crowd at the just-ended Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, Ind., roared in gleeful disbelief when surprise guest Earl Scruggs stepped up to the mic to perform with Lizzy Long & Friends.
The throng was on [...]

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2008 Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival Pictures

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
June 25, 2008

The Lonesome River Band. Photo By Dan Tackett.
Ronnie Bowman & the Committee with Robbie McCoury Sitting in on banjo. Photo by Dan Tackett.
Eddie Adcock on stage during a performance with wife Martha. Photo by Dan Tackett.
Earl Scruggs and Lizzie Long onstage at the 2008 Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Photo by Thomas Stout.

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Watson, Scruggs, Carters are charter Hall members

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
May 21, 2008

Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and The Carter Family are among the charter inductees to the Blue Ridge Hall of Fame.
Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and The Carter Family are among the charter inductees into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame, which will hold its first induction gala on June 13.
The ceremony will take place [...]

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Scruggs to help with salute to Steve Martin

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
November 28, 2007

Bluegrass icon Earl Scruggs will perform this weekend in a tribute to another legend — film actor and comic Steve Martin, who is set to receive a Kennedy Center Honor in Washington, D.C.
Besides his abilities to act on film and tickle the funny bones, Martin plays Scruggs-style five string banjo.
Famed fiddler Mark O’Connor will also [...]

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