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	<description>Talk about bluegrass, old time music, and whatever...</description>
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		<title>The Future of Bluegrass?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of that first generation, Bill Monroe was the *only* band leader to ever hire musical talent from the city. He was the only one with the vision to look beyond his own mileau to "help the music as it goes along" (as he told me more than once).]]></description>
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		<title>A bluegrass reading list</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Monroe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neil Rosenberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A local bookstore asked me to compile a short reading list on the subject of bluegrass music, and I thought I might as well share it with you on the &#8216;Net.  It&#8217;s very brief, but additions are welcomed, and it does make a good start for those interested in learning more about what I feel is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of Eck Robertson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fiddler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I traded e-mails with my friend David Holt of Ashville, NC, who still travels and performs with guitarist Doc Watson and others.  David had run across a reference in a book by British music historian and writer Tony Russell to Texas fiddler Eck Robertson, who is known as the person to make the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oklahoma International BG Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Munde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma Int. BG Festival]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a great time performing in Oklahoma this past weekend with my friends Wayne Shrubsall and Bruce Thompson.  Lots of good bands, including Byron Berline, Alan Munde&#8217;s Gazette, the Gibson Brothers, Mark O&#8217;Connor Trio, and of course, The Old Time Band&#8220;. Here&#8217;s a pic from Byron&#8217;s International Bluegrass Festival in Gutrhrie, OK. It&#8217;s of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Hinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends, Sam Hinton passed away on Thursday, September 10, at 4 p.m., surrounded by family and hearing his own songs.   It was a peaceful end to a long, creative and beloved life.  There is a sweet tribute to him at &#60; www.samhinton.org&#62;, the website kept by his grandchild Katrina Cooper and her husband Danny. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Monica Pier turns 100 today</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byron Berline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gilles Apap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santa Monica Pier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Southern California pier has been a great music venue over the years, and served as a host to the renewed Ash Grove for a period of eleven months. My fondest recollection of the pier was a public performance I did there as a duo with fiddler Byron Berline, before he moved back to Guthrie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More thoughts on Mike Seeger and the NLCR</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following from my Albuquerque friend, Wayne Shrubsall: MIKE SEEGER Wayne Shrubsall . . . Indiana born and bred, I became interested in Southern music via pop folk in 1959; from the Kingston Trio, I began listening to the Weavers, and then to Pete Seeger (though I was not as far left as he) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Seeger   1933 &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a long struggle with cancer, Mike Seeger died peacefully last Friday, August 7th, in his Lexington, Virginia home, surrounded by his wife, family, and friends. Mike Seeger with John Cohen, 1963 (Peter Feldmann photo) Best known perhaps for his role as co-founder of the music group The New Lost City Ramblers, Mike devoted his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A brief encounter with fame and fortune&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did a show with &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Boys&#8221; last night in Los Olivos, CA at the local Grange hall. Just into the second set, news crews with cameras showed up at the door. It was ABC and NBC, up from LA, covering Michael Jackson&#8217;s death (he&#8217;d had his Neverland Ranch 5 miles up the road). Seeing as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickin&#8217; under the Cupressus macrocarpus&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The VLB at LotuslandThe Very Lonesome Boys had a great time at Lotusland May 16th, playing for Member&#8217;s Day.  They put us under their magnificent Monterey Cyprus tree, overlooking the large lawn and Madame Ganawalska&#8217;s former residence.  Thanks to Virginia Hayes and all the staff at Lotusland for inviting us!  Check out Lotusland.org for further [...]]]></description>
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