Hot Rize in Raleigh
“Hot Rize” is a bluegrass band that takes its name from an “ingredient” in Martha White brand flour and cornmeal. Formed in Colorado in the late 1970s , the band’s current line-up plays in Meymandi...
View ArticleChatham County Line on Last Motel
Be sure to tune in Christmas night at 6 for a special edition of the program Last Motel when host Eric Hodge and will be joined by the band Chatham County Line. They're a bluegrass-inspired band that...
View ArticleBluegrass Festival Coming To Raleigh In 2013
North Carolina will host the best in Bluegrass music in a capital city festival starting next year.
View ArticleMusic Legend Doc Watson Dead At 89
Musician Doc Watson died on Tuesday. The 89 year old guitarist from Deep Gap, North Carolina, had been in a Winston-Salem hospital recovering from a fall and other ailments. Watson was an iconic North...
View ArticleVince Gill Looking Forward To Playing Bluegrass In NC
Country legend Vince Gill plays the Durham Performing Arts Center this Sunday night. After nearly 20 records, 14 Grammys and a truckload of Country Music Association Awards, he's back playing bluegrass...
View ArticleMipso
The band of three young men and one young woman used to call themselves Mipso Trio.Now they go by Mipso after adding a fiddler. They recently released their first full length CD and they spent the...
View ArticleBluegrass Band 'Town Mountain' on Tour
Last year, Town Mountain released their album Leave the Bottle. On WNCW’s “Top 100 of 2012” list, the Asheville-based bluegrass band's album earned the #19 spot. Town Mountain is playing tonight in...
View ArticleAlice Gerrard Releases First All Original Album
Alice Gerrard is a legend in the world of bluegrass, inspiring many musical greats, including The Judds. But it’s only on her latest production, “Bittersweet,” that she is releasing an entire album of...
View ArticleYoung Band Spreads Its Musical Wings
Out of the Shenandoah Valley, Many Nights Ahead is a young 7-member bluegrass band looking to grow. Their music is influenced by the Shenandoah Valley and their backgrounds in genres such as blues and...
View ArticleN.C. Musicians Among This Year's Bluegrass Award Nominees
The International Bluegrass Music Association's 2013 award ceremony isn't coming to Raleigh until mid-September, but the excitement has already made it to town. Fans gathered at three viewing parties...
View ArticleBluegrass Broadcast From IBMA On WUNC
Later this month bluegrass musicians toting their banjos, mandolins and fiddles will flock to Raleigh for the International Bluegrass Musician Association's 24th annual awards event and conference....
View ArticleWUNC Coverage Of "World Of Bluegrass" In Raleigh
The number of banjos, mandolins and fiddles has skyrocketed in Raleigh this week as the IBMA bluegrass conference and musical event comes to town. The "World of Bluegrass" is an annual business...
View ArticleA New Home For The 'World Of Bluegrass'
The World of Bluegrass event is underway in Raleigh. It's the first year the five-day convention has come to the Triangle after having a home in Nashville for eight years, and it's a place for...
View ArticleWorld Of Bluegrass: Bands Play On, Prepare For Awards Ceremony
Raleigh is in the middle of the World of Bluegrass festival. Craig Havighurst returns to talk with WUNC's Eric Hodge about the event. Havighurst is a music journalist who has contributed to NPR and...
View ArticleIBMA Winners Balsam Range Rock Raleigh
In the winter of 2007, five Haywood county bluegrass musicians got together for an informal jam session. Out of that collaboration, the band Balsam Range was born. They are nominated in six different...
View ArticleAn Evening Of Bluegrass Live From Raleigh
Last night a few hours after the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences had closed for the evening, a series of banjos, fiddles and mandolins paraded past the smiling security officers into an area...
View ArticleWorld Of Bluegrass: Awards And Weekend Lineup
The World of Bluegrass festival is in its last few days in Raleigh. Music journalist Craig Havighurst is back one last time to talk about the event. He's a triangle native who now hosts a music roots...
View ArticleMichigan Bluegrass Band Joins Wide Open Lineup
Greensky Bluegrass is one of more than 50 bands coming to Raleigh this week for the Wide Open Bluegrass Festival. The Michigan group’s hybrid sound draws on the influence of rock ‘n roll and jam bands....
View ArticleBreakthrough Year In Bluegrass for Steep Canyon Rangers
2013 has been a huge year for the western North Carolina bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers. The band released a new album “Tell The Ones I Love,” won a Grammy award for “Best Bluegrass Album,”...
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