Jerry Douglas

Belmont native wins Musician of the Year

BY SHEENA BARNETT Daily Journal BELMONT - It's hard to give a good acceptance speech when country music veteran Vince Gill is making faces at you. That's the lesson Mac McAnally learned Wednesday night when he accepted his...

Jake Schepps - Expedition

Jake Schepps Available from Jake Schepps' web site. This is a banjo album, true, but it is not just a banjo album, for Jake Schepps is a musician before he is a picker. Like them, Schepps avoids the pitfall of making the...

Dobro master Jerry Douglas plays Sunday, collects for Second Harvest

Jerry Douglas reinvented the Dobro, playing that tough-to-tame instrument in a way that expanded possibilities and busted barriers. Douglas' latest album is the remarkable Glide, which finds Douglas performing with guests...

Country Music Association Announces 2008 Winners

Country Stars and Movie Stars Converge for 42nd Annual CMA Awards Country fans, country stars, rock stars and movie stars mingled during the Country Music Association's 42nd annual awards show on Nov. 12, 2008 in Nashville....

Some predictions for this year's Country Music Awards

Yes. I call it the Groundhog Day Awards. I mean, really, doesn't this seem like the same show every year? Oh, I will give the CMAs this: This show (which airs at 8 p.m. Wednesday on ABC) is always the most generous in the...

MerleFest 2009 announces lineup of Emmylou Harris, Travis Tritt, more

Emmylou Harris, Travis Tritt and Jerry Douglas, BeauSoleil, Great Big Sea, Donna the Buffalo and Rory Block are among the 90-plus artists confirmed to appear at MerleFest 2009 on April 23-26 at Wilkes Community College in...

Steve Martin works on album here

That sly Steve Martin quietly snuck into town last month and recorded a song for his upcoming album for which he wrote or co-wrote all the songs. The album will feature both instrumentals and songs with Steve's vocals.

Punch Brothers: New tunes, familiar faces - roanoke.com

Courtesy photo Punch Brothers is made up of, from left, Gabe Witcher, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile, Chris Eldridge and Greg Garrison. Mandolin hotshot Chris Thile is the marquee name in Punch Brothers. Chris “Critter” Eldridge, an...

Solar-powered Music on the Mountain (and BYOB)

Just found this on the ASU website (make sure you check out the 5 minute video ...):When Jimmy Hunt gets an idea, look out. A business class project in 2007 wasn't hypothetical in this student's mind. When his professor...

Julie Fowlis On Mountain Stage

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Julie Fowlis has made a huge name for herself overseas singing in Gaelic, a language understood by only 1 percent of the population in her native Scotland. She recently performed her unique...

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