Finnders & Youngberg, Colorado’s premier Americana quintet, will add yet another honor to their impressive resume: they’ve been chosen as an official showcase act for the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass conference in Nashville, Tenn., this fall. They are one of just 13 acts invited to perform during the bluegrass industry’s biggest and most important week.
Festival Mozaic has announced its 2012 summer season, which will take place July 12-22 in the most charismatic spaces across California's Central Coast including Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, Chapel Hill in wine country, Hearst Castle overlooking the sparkling Pacific Ocean, and Mission San Miguel . The theme, "In The Footsteps of Giants," will showcase a lineage of masterworks which inspired – and were inspired by – phenomenal composers over the ages.
The San Francisco Mandolin Orchestra with singers Susan Gundunas and Twila Ehmcke will be performing one of the gems of the Baroque music era, Stabat Mater, written in 1736 by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
The Newport Festivals Foundation has announced the lineup for the 2012 Newport Folk Festival set to take place July 28-29 at Fort Adams State Park.
A neurological disorder called dystonia is estimated to have ended the careers of at least one member of every major American metropolitan orchestra. Dystonia has claimed the livelihoods of musicians across genres including the acclaimed pianist Leon Fleisher of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, former first oboist of the Chicago Symphony Alex Klein, acoustic guitarist Billy McLaughlin, classical guitarist Liona Boyd, keyboard player Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, and others.
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This is the days of Bill Monroe
William Smith Monroe was born on September 13, 1911, on a farm just outside the town of Rosine in Ohio County, Kentucky. Today is his 100th birthday, and the celebration has started.
By Reidar Falch
Bill Monroe
He is named as the Father Of Bluegrass. Bluegrass has grown into an entire industri. Somehow, Bill Monroe was part in defining the folk music of America.
Bluegrass was an entirely new genre of music named after his band, the Blue Grass Boys, and the Blue Grass State of Kentucky, his birthplace.
Bill Monroe lived with his Uncle Pen (Pendleton Vandiver) for a while after loosing his parents. Uncle Pen taught young Bill a few fiddle tunes that would influence Bill's playing style on mandolin. His playing style ended up reinventing the mandolin in music.
Bill Monroe is the only person elected into all of the Country Music Hall Of Fame, the International Bluegrass Music Association Hall Of Fame, and the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.
The celebration of Bill Monroe’s centennial is massive. The whole bluegrass industri is participating. Exhibitions, concerts, record releases, films, festivals, instruments, merchandise and more bear his name.
Happy Birthday Bill Monroe.
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