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Stay(ing) Strong | Covid-19 Update

Posted by Dave Jnr | May 7, 2020

Timing. Today is a bittersweet day and no mistake. May 7th 2020 was to mark the first time that an...

Kristy Cox Europe 2020 | * Postponed *

Posted by Dave Jnr | March 21, 2020

“Despite the hard-hitting graphic, the tour is postponed, not cancelled, and we’re already working to make it a reality for May 2021. One more year of planning to make it even better than it would have been this year.”

Sideline | Waterford, Ireland 2019

Posted by Dave Jnr | July 15, 2019

“The Sideline bluegrass sound from the stage of the Royal Theatre, Waterford, Ireland’s oldest continually operating performance venue. Wonderful stuff. Just wonderful.”

Bluegrass Island Festival 2017

Posted by Dave Jnr | October 7, 2017

“The heavy-hitting pioneering and ground-breaking history; the beaches; the lighthouses; and the swashbuckling maritime vibe of North Carolina’s Outer Bank were enthralling and educational. But even they, and if you’ll pardon the oh-so pathetic pun, played a very distant second fiddle to the 4 days of foot tappin’ and artist mingling that was the Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival in Roanoke Island Festival Park, known for a period every year as Bluegrass Island.”

Ricky Skaggs | Cordell, KY | Bluegrass Trails

Posted by Dave Jnr | September 26, 2016

“Rural Kentucky is home to many a country and bluegrass music heavy-hitter, two of which – one dead, one very much alive – were of particular interest to us on this day, and we went searching for signs of them in two Kentucky towns that you’d probably otherwise have no reason to visit. First up was Cordell, KY boyhood home of one Ricky Skaggs.”

WBRF 98.1 Blue Ridge Backroads | Galax, VA

Posted by Dave Jnr | September 23, 2016

“We had tickets for the following day’s Rex Fest bluegrass musical bonanza, but on its eve we got a taste of what is to come by attending a performance by Galax resident and banjo picker Stevie Barr (& Friends) in the town’s historic Rex Theater. The 100-mile-an-hour performance of premier pickin’ was awesome and was broadcast throughout the region as Blue Ridge Backroads via the town’s Classic Country WBRF
98.1.”

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