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Geoff Morris of Wall-To-Wall Bluegrass to compere CD Release in the USA. Later this year he will be travelling to U.S.A. with Milo, his ten year old seeing-eye dog. On 24 September he will compere the live CD release concert of the Bluegrass Bands, Helping Hands Volume 3 in Dalton, Georgia. The sales of the [...]
It will be 10 years since the release of O Brother Where Art Thou in August this year. Andy Cahn works for the Public Media Service in the USA and has recently advised us that he is seeking radio presenters who may be interested in using a new one-hour O Brother Where Art Thou? radio [...]
We have often promoted upcoming programs on Jan Dale’s Southern Style here at the Australian Bluegrass Blog. Jan’s excellent program is broadcast via PBS FM from Melbourne. Did you know that PBS announcers are volunteers? Did also you know that there is around 80 programs on the PBS program guide? Always dreamed of being an [...]
Jan Dale will be presenting a tribute to the late John Hartford on Southern Style, Tuesday 28th June. John Hartford was a musician, songwriter, steamboat pilot, author, artist, disc jockey, calligrapher, dancer, folklorist, father, and historian. He was a particularly skilled fiddle and banjo player. He won Grammy awards in three different decades, recorded more [...]
Jan Dale has let us know of a short tribute to Bill Clifton to be played on Southern Style next Tuesday, 10th May. Bill Clifton is a fine BG guitarist and vocalist. Originally from Maryland he began his music career in 1950 on a radio station in Charlottesville and also performed at local barn dances [...]
Jan Dale will be presenting a special tribute show to Hazel Dickens on Southern Style on 3rd May 2011. Hazel Dickens, a folk singer and bluegrass musician who advocated for coal miners, has recently died at age 75. Dickens died Friday morning at a Washington hospice of complications from pneumonia. Dickens, a vocalist and double-bassist, [...]
Suburban FM is an internet radio station that is launching in April 2011 As Suburban FM is a community based internet radio station they require bands that are interested in having their music broadcast over the internet that can be tuned into 24/7 They are seeking to gather a base of 25 talented local bands [...]
News from Jan Dale at PBS FM Victorian Old Time string band Appalachian Heaven will be playing live to air on Jan Dale’s Southern Style on PBS FM 106.7 www.pbsfm.org.au on Tuesday 8th March between 1:00pm and 3:00pm. The band consists of Ian Alexander (fretted and fretless banjo), Maureen Beggs (fiddle, vocal), Maggie Duncan (fiddle, [...]
Southern Style Tuesday 25th January 2011. Jan Dale will be playing interviews she recorded in Nashville with three members of the recently formed Bluegrass super-group The Boxcars. They are award winning musicians Adam Steffey (mandolin) and Ron Stewart (banjo & fiddle) and bass player Harold Nixon. Other members of the band are Keith Garrett and [...]
Next Tuesday, 14th Dec., Jane Dale will be playing an interview with Rodney Dillard, founding member of the legendary group The Dillards and member of the Bluegrass television group The Darlings. Rodney Dillard has been inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and twice nominated for a Grammy and frequently appeared on the [...]
This Saturday morning, 4th December, between 10:00am and 1:00pm Eastern Australian Daylight Saving Time, Geoff Morris will be celebrating his 350th bluegrass music show on worldwidebluegrass.com. This is a definite landmark, I think, and one I’d love to share with as many listeners as possible. Guaranteed we’ll have a joyous time, playing a few new [...]
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