Category: Bluegrass
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My radio show turns 33!
March 7, 1976. Gerald Ford was President. The Pittsburgh Steelers were Super Bowl champs. Rocky received the Oscar for best picture. A peanut farmer from Georgia was beginning his campaign for the presidency. That’s also when a very nervous banjo player went on the air for the first time to play bluegrass music on San…
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Bluegrass Bios
I have a website for bluegrass DJ’s (like me) called Bluegrass Bios. To get to it click here.
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Lighthouse
I play banjo in a bluegrass band called Lighthouse and we play every first Wednesday of the month at the Friendly Grounds Coffee House in Santee (9225 Carlton Hills Blvd.) from 7 to 9 p.m. Come on out and see us sometime. It’s free and a lot of fun. UPDATE: we are not playing at…
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Family Heirloom Fiddle
Last year I acquired from my Aunt Mabel (age 90+) an old fiddle that belonged to her father (my grandfather Clay Powers) and before that, her grandfather (my great-grandfather). Actually I didn’t know that any of our ancestors on the Powers side (my mother’s family) were musicians. I always assumed the music in my family…