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Bluegrass Festival and Event Calendar - June 6

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
June 6, 2008

Alabama
June 6-7 — Foggy Hollow Bluegrass Gatherin’ - Wellington, AL. Featuring Bluegrass Artists The Chapmans, Blue Moon Rising, IIIrd Tyme Out, Kudzu String Band, Kelli Johnson, the Herb Trotman band and Foggy Hollow. Tickets are available at the gate for $15 (fri) $25 (Sat.) or a 2 day pass for $30.
Maine
Canceled for 2008 - Blue [...]

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W. Va. campus to hold 24th annual Bluegrass Week

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
March 11, 2008

Billing itself as “the original pickin’ camp,” the 24th annual Bluegrass Week will be held July 27 through Aug. 2 at the Augusta Heritage Center on the campus of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins, W. Va.
Some of the genre’s most respected musicians will lead students this year in workshops, demonstrations, special presentations, concerts [...]

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Hazel Dickens Among Inaugural Inductees Into The West Virginia Music Hall of Fame

Category: Bluegrass News

By Travis Tackett
November 15, 2007

Hazel Dickens
Burlington, MA - Renowned folk/bluegrass artist Hazel Dickens will be honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, Friday, November 16, at The Cultural Center in Charleston, WV.
Considered one of the most influential and powerful artists, male or female, in the world of Americana music, Dickens will [...]

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West Virginia Music Hall of Fame announces inaugural inductees

Category: Bluegrass News

By Dan Tackett
August 14, 2007

Bluegrass, old-timey and traditional country music are at the forefront in the inaugural round of inductees into the new West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, which is located in the Cultural Center of the Capitol Complex in Charleston.Among the Hall’s first 10 inductees, announced earlier this month, are singer and songwriter Hazel Dickens, country singer [...]

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