Posts Tagged ‘ Jerry Douglas ’

Guitar Pull Highlights Second Annual All for the Hall benefit

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
October 22, 2008

Prominent leaders in business, entertainment and media expressed their support for the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum at the not-for-profit educational organization’s second annual All for the Hall New York fundraiser at the Nokia Theatre Times Square on October 15.

Hosted by actor-musician Billy Bob Thornton and his band, the Boxmasters, the select crowd included veteran NBC newscaster Tom Brokaw; film directors Jonathan Demme and Andrew Jarecki; musician and painter Bob Neuwirth; record producer Nile Rodgers; comedian and TV personality Jeffrey Ross; former NBC anchor John Siegenthaler Jr. and his wife, former Seattle TV news anchor Kerry Brock; ESPN newscaster Hannah Storm; and country singer Chely Wright.

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Jerry Douglas joins “All for the Hall” benefit lineup

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
October 13, 2008

Nashville, Tenn., — Dobro virtuoso Jerry Douglas has been added to the all-star line-up of performers at the Country Music Hall of Fame®and Museum’s second annual All for the Hall New York benefit at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square on Wednesday, October 15. Douglas joins musical performers including Larry Campbell, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, [...]

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Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Vince and Emmylou to Perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Second Annual All for the Hall New York Benefit

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
September 24, 2008

New York, NY — On Wednesday, October 15, Rodney Crowell, Jerry Douglas, Vince Gill and Emmylou Harris will perform at the second annual All for the Hall New York benefit for the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. Presented as an old-fashioned “guitar pull,” the benefit at the Nokia Theatre in Times Square will [...]

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Jerry Douglas slides into 2008 IBMA Dobro player nomination

Category: IBMA Nominees

By Dan Tackett
September 2, 2008

Jerry Douglas Band plays “The Wild Rumpus” from “Glide” during it’s CD Release Party at the Bohemian Cafe in Greenville, SC
Jerry Douglas, the Country Music Association’s reigning Musician of the Year, is up for Dobro Player of the Year honors next month when the International Bluegrass Music Association hands out its annual awards in Nashville, [...]

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John Oates of Hall and Oates fame calls on Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas for new album

Category: CD Release

By Travis Tackett
August 29, 2008

John Oates “1000 Miles of Life” features some of Nashville’s finest session players including Sam Bush, Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas.
Los Angeles, CA — For John Oates, longtime member of music’s best-selling duo of all time Daryl Hall & John Oates, his second solo album, 1000 Miles of Life, scheduled for release on September [...]

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