Earl Scruggs News

 
The Daily Tar Heel
Red Clay Ramblers to be honored at PlayMakers Ball
The Daily Tar Heel
The band changed from the opening act to the main event when it was announced that Earl Scruggs was too ill to play. This year's PlayMakers Ball will mix a little country in with its usual glitz and glamour. The ball's theme, “Diamonds and Denim ...

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NC courthouse honors banjo master Earl Scruggs
WRAL.com
If things go well, by year's end, the local landmark will become the Earl Scruggs Center: Music & Stories of the American South, a regional music education and performance center. Restoration work that began in the spring of 2010 is almost finished; ...


 
Earl Scruggs Center Progress
Charlotte Observer
Visible through an arched window of the old Well House under renovation to be the entry for visitors into the old Cleveland County Courthouse/Earl Scruggs Center (background) are project leaders Millie Arey Wood (co-chair of the History Committee for ...

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Music briefs: BFS features autoharp music of Bryan Bowers
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
With a performing career spanning over 35 years, Bowers is known to be to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs is to the five-string banjo. He has been a favorite at festivals in the Midwest. In 1993 he was inducted into the Autoharp Hall of Fame.


 
Bluegrass jam at Tom's
Mail Tribune
"I had it repaired and bought an instructional book and vinyl LP by Earl Scruggs." He taught himself to play and progressed quickly, he says. "I became extremely addicted to playing banjo, and within a year I was working with a paid, professional band, ...


 
New Yorker (blog)
The Master from Flint Hill: Earl Scruggs
New Yorker (blog)
But Earl always obliged the youngsters and amateurs (including this writer, whom Earl showed how to play “Sally Goodin',” his way, when I was twenty-two). Sometime after Monroe denied him songwriting credit on “Bluegrass Breakdown,” Scruggs left Monroe ...


 
Dierks Bentley Takes Country Fans Into His 'Home'
The Boot
I was at Earl Scruggs' birthday party and we were all picking and singing songs. First of all, for me to get the chance to pick and sing with Earl Scruggs, that made my year. That will be hard to top that this year, singing bluegrass with Earl Scruggs.

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