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The Nashville Bluegrass Band is an American bluegrass music ensemble founded in 1984. The group's members first played together in 1984 as a backing band for Vernon Oxford and Minnie Pearl; each of the members was an established musician from the Nashville bluegrass community. [ 1] They signed to Rounder Records and recorded their Béla Fleck ...
The Petersen children grew up playing music together, but first heard bluegrass in 2003 at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. The band was formed and had their first performance in 2005 at their mother's hometown church First Christian Church of Mountain Grove, Missouri. [citation needed]
Each band on this list either has published sources — such as a news reports, magazine articles, or books — verifying it is a performing or recording bluegrass band and meeting Wikipedia's notability criteria for bands, or a Wikipedia article confirming its notability. For individual musicians, see the List of bluegrass musicians.
The festival became one of the largest bluegrass festivals in Europe until it ceased after 2001. The Int. Bühler Bluegrass Festival in Bühl (Baden), Germany, can be regarded as its successor. The festival attracted major bands from the American scene like the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Country Gazette, The Tony Rice Unit, Laurie Lewis and ...
Stompin 76 Music Festival was known as "the Woodstock of Bluegrass". [1] The 3 day camp-out music festival took place from Friday through to Sunday, August 6, 7, and 8 in 1976 , eight miles north of Galax, VA at the New River Jam Site, owned by the Lawson family.
JT Gray, the owner and co-founder of the Station Inn, a mecca for bluegrass and roots music enthusiasts in Nashville since the mid-’70s, died Saturday at age 75. The club attributed the death to ...
Years active. 1954–present. Labels. Rounder, Flying Fish, Takoma, Shanachie, Red House, Plectrafone/Western Jubilee. Spouse (s) Nancy Blake. Norman L. Blake (born March 10, 1938) is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter. He is half of the eponymous Norman & Nancy Blake band with his wife, Nancy Blake.
The Nashville Grass was a bluegrass band founded by Lester Flatt in 1969, after the end of his partnership with Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys. Flatt hired most of the Foggy Mountain Boys for his new band. Over the years, as with most bluegrass bands, the Nashville Grass saw numerous changes in personnel, including the addition of ...