by Patrick Campbell | Dec 16, 2021 | Announcements
MAKE MARK RUN! THE PITCH: You DON’T like running. You DO like music. And kids are, at times, likable. Finally there is a way to combine all three of these preferences and raise money for a great cause! READ ON! THE DEAL: CBA member Mark Peet is pledging to run...
by Patrick Campbell | Dec 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’m writing as a member of the IBMA Foundation’s Arnold Shultz Fund Committee to ask you to let your readers know about our work. The fund was established last year to support activities increasing participation of people of color in bluegrass music. Last...
by Patrick Campbell | Dec 2, 2021 | Bluegrass Musicians
Bill Keith and Earl Scruggs and their collaboration to create Earl Scruggs and the 5-String Banjo (Peer International Corporation, New York. 1968). This book, a collaboration between Earl Scruggs, Bill Keith and Burt Brent, is the first serious and certainly...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 24, 2021 | Announcements
BLUEGRASS SIGNAL: What’s Goin’ On? Broadcast on www.KALW.org (91.7 FM) on Nov. 27, 2021, 5-6 pm (Pacific Time) Available on demand for one week via www.KALW.org/local-music-player (select ‘Bluegrass Signal’) First hour broadcast four times...
by Patrick Campbell | Nov 20, 2021 | Bluegrass Musicians
The Single-string Playing of Eddie Adcock and Don Reno. I met Eddie Adcock about 1990 when he was one of the great acts there at the World of Bluegrass when it was based in Owensboro, Kentucky, His band at that time included the award-winning rhythm guitarist Martha...
