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Steve Martin, a renowned comedian, is also a celebrated bluegrass musician with six consecutive No. 1 albums. Martin is set to release a new album in 2025 with banjo player Alison Brown, featuring ...

KSAT: Only banjos in the building: Steve Martin will co-host the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards

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Only banjos in the building: Steve Martin will co-host the 2025 IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards

J.D. Crowe, a pioneering banjo player with his progressive bluegrass group the New South, died Friday morning, according to a post on the musician’s Facebook page. He was 84. “This morning at around 3 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A renowned Bluegrass musician who called North Carolina home unexpectedly passed away at the age of 57. James "Jim" Mills died on May 3. He was born in Raleigh and started to ...

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American Songwriter: Born on This Day in 1924, the Bluegrass Icon Who Made the Banjo What It Is Today

Born on This Day in 1924, the Bluegrass Icon Who Made the Banjo What It Is Today

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WHYY: ‘Music from the heart’: Bluegrass tradition blossoms at a family-owned music shop in Bucks County

‘Music from the heart’: Bluegrass tradition blossoms at a family-owned music shop in Bucks County

J.D. Crowe, a banjo player who helped define the instrument for generations of bluegrass fans, died Friday, his family announced on Facebook. “This morning at around 3 a.m,, our dad, JD Crowe, went ...

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To Béla Fleck, the banjo isn’t just a musical instrument: it’s a navigational instrument, a divining rod that led the Manhattan-born musician through musical genres, little-known chapters of American ...

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