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International Bluegrass Music Awards Roll Of Honour: Kenny Baker (Biography) Note: Each of the following is “Of The Year”
Instrumental Performers:
See NWBN Sept 1999 for the list of nominees International Country Music Hall of Fame Colonel Billy D.Foster Executive Director, Best of Texas Awards Committee, reports: “By a 100% majority vote of the Awards Committee of the Best of Texas Music Awards, it has been approved for the establishment of an International Country Music Hall of Fame. It will be under the care and direction of Uwe Barth and the Independent Country Music Association of Germany. “Further, the Best of Texas Awards Committee has designated Weiden, Germany has the home location of the ICMHF. “Committees from Europe, United States, and Canada will be appointed in the near future for the purpose of nomination and induction process.”
November 1999 Prize Competition Winners THE WINNERS FOR the November 1999 competition were John Blisset and Bill Sutton. Both receive copies of the Relièf CD Leaves in the Wind, reviewed in the July 1999 issue by Ian Reynolds. I had decided to make it easy to enter - you only had to (a) be a paid-up Sponsor and (b) send in your own name. I said “If you can’t find this info please write to me and I will let you know what it is.” Well, 15 people seemed to know who they were and where they lived, though Phil Heald took the easy way out! (see Letters) The CD Prizes were donated by Relièf promoter and NWBN sponsor Arthur Robinson, to whom many thanks. More competitions soon.... we just need the prizes... Top 10 Selling Bluegrass Albums (USA) For the week ending December 28, 1999
Some readers might find it interesting that much of the above represents the ‘soft face’ of Bluegrass - perhaps the model to follow if you want to become popular???? The controversial article Stairway to The Stars might be worth re-visiting...
The British Bluegrass Music
Association
The British Bluegrass Music will again be held at the Heart of England
Bluegrass Venue, Kenilworth (home of Ron Stevens’ club) on Saturday,
11th March. It will take the same successful format as last year - the meeting,
open to all members, will be in the afternoon:
The evening concert will feature A Band Like Alice, Generation Gap and one other band. It will be free to members. The Concert will be open to non-members for a small fee, but if they join the BBMA on the night the price will be deducted from the subscription - can’t be bad! The area is of great historic interest - and places like Warwick and Stratford upon Avon is very close by, so why not go down and stay over?
The
line-up for Merlefest 2000 ANYONE LUCKY ENOUGH to attend this festival at Wilkesboro, N.Carolina., will be treated to: Thursday 27th: Doc Watson; Dixie Dawn; IIIrd Tyme Out; String Cheese Incident; Willie Nelson & Family Friday 28th: Freight Hoppers; Maura O’Connell; Tony Rice with Chesapeake; Blues Showcase featuring with Roy Book Binder, Jorma Kaukonen, Kelly Joe Philips, Woody Mann, Little Pink Anderson; Laurie Lewis & Her Bluegrass Pals; Tony Rice, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan; John Hartford, Tim O’Brien, Mark Shatz &Friends; Doc Watson & the Nashville Bluegrass Band; and: Merlefest All-Star Jam featuring Alison Brown, Laurie Lewis, Clair Lynch, Missy Raines, Sally Van Meter,Rhonda Vincent; Sam Bush Band; Nanci Griffith & The Blue Moon Orchestra Saturday 29th: “My Friend Merle” featuring T Michael Coleman, John Cowan, Bob Hill, Jack Lawrence, Cliff Miller, Joe Smothers, Doc Watson & Richard Watson; Alison Brown Quartet; Claire Lynch & The Front Porch Band; Rhonda Vincent & The Rage; John Cowan Band; Nickel Creek; Natalie MacMaster Band; Jerry Douglas Band; Laura Love Band; Peter Rowan & The Free Mexican Air Force with Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas & Laurie Lewis Sunday 30th: Tim O’Brien &Darrell Scott; Gillian Welch & David Rawlings; Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys with Jim Lauderdale; Tish Hinojosa Band; Salute To John Hartford with his band, Sam Bush, David Holt & Friends
We would appreciate it if a British visitor would send in a report
and photos!
Ironbridge Bluegrass & Roots Festival Organiser Mal Salisbury reports “We are in process of moving the festival to a new site close to the old site, but with better facilities. It is a sports centre complex with both fixed buildings and room for marquees. This year it will be on the new site but as a 1-day event only, held on the traditional mid-June date. The format will be as before with various music-styles presented. In 2001 it will be a 3-day event.Web site The new A1 Festival, Peterborough Plans are now being drawn up for an exciting new festival of American Music and Dance. The emphasis will be on Bluegrass, Old-Time music and Appalachian Dance, but anything that is related, is good fun, and is available will be there. The working name is The A1 festival at Sacrewell Farm & Country Centre, Thornhaugh, Peterborough. It is just off the A1, near the beautiful village of Wansford. For more details contact Alan & Tracy West-Robinson: phone 01733 840389, or wait until the March NWBN.
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