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"What a treat this place was. Olive Hill’s Sturgill’s Music Center, a shop-cum-museum, has been a cultural mainstay in Olive Hill for over 55 years, forever promoting the pickin’ of Kentucky bluegrass as opposed to the cutting of it. The talkative and affable lady keeping shop was only too happy to dust off old pictures of Tom T. Hall to appease our curiosity while outlining her connection to him, her late husband having been both a good friend and a former band member. It seems like everyone around here has a Tom T. connection." ... MORE
- Bill Monroe
TOURS
Our tours to date
- David Pendley, mandolinist with The Kristy Cox Band
BLUEGRASS HISTORY / GIGS & FESTIVALS / TRAILS
Musings from the bluegrass past, the bluegrass crowd and the bluegrass trail
- Bluegrass History
- Bluegrass Gigs/Festival
- Bluegrass Trails
Ricky Skaggs | Europe 1985
"Only a 9-year-old me would have the gumption to solicit Ricky’s attention mid-set during the Dublin leg of his 1985 European tour, his first tour as a bandleader at the height of his 1980's country success and a tour that would spawn an album, 'Live In London', that would leave an indelible impression on me.”
Ricky Skaggs | Europe 1985
"Only a 9-year-old me would have the gumption to solicit Ricky’s attention mid-set during the Dublin leg of his 1985 European tour, his first tour as a bandleader at the height of his 1980's country success and a tour that would spawn an album, 'Live In London', that would leave an indelible impression on me.”
Jimmy Martin | Sneedville, TN | Bluegrass Trails
"... Sneedville, Tennessee, may be one of the poorest towns in the US... but at least it can lay claim to being the hometown of Jimmy 'King of Bluegrass' Martin. Suffice it to say, this is the only reason we found ourselves on the streets of the town searching out signs of Sneedville’s favourite son while receiving inquisitive stares from the few locals we encountered; Sneedville is a friendly town (we got free coffee), but it's still the kind of place where everybody knows everybody else and if you ain’t from round these parts then you’re gonna stand out. We did."
- Steve Martin
RECENT & FEATURED
A selection of the most recent and featured posts
WEEKLY FEATURED GALLERY HEADER
2020, Week 22, May 25-31 | (l-r) Justyna & Irene Kelley, Outer Banks #BluegrassIsland Festival 2017
- Bill Monroe
