The Bluegrass Ireland Blog

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The Bluegrass Ireland Blog

Where the BIB comes from

The Irish Bluegrass Music Club Newsletter was founded in 1992 by Dick Gladney, bassist at that time with the Flint Hill Boys of Athy, Co. Kildare, and in recent years with the Niall Toner Band. I took over the editing in 1996; it was renamed Bluegrass Ireland in 1999. It now appears six to eight times a year, and aims to provide news of bluegrass and old-time music events throughout Ireland; to report on CDs, books, hardware, gossip, and quotes; and to link those who love these forms of music with one another and with the worldwide bluegrass and old-time communities.

With an increasing flow of news, however, a print newsletter is always liable to appear too early for some news items and too late for others. The Bluegrass Ireland Blog (BIB), first launched on 21 November 2005, aims to remedy that: bands, event organisers, and any members of the bluegrass/old-time community in this island can now have news made available here to anyone with internet access anywhere in the world, practically as soon as we receive it.

The BIB's model is the original Bluegrass Blog, established in the USA in 2005 by John Lawless and Brance Gillihan, whose example and encouragement are gratefully acknowledged. Thanks to Alice Toner for setting up the BIB, and to Eamonn Quigley for his cordial assistance.
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posted by Richard Hawkins @ 10:10 PM 2 comments
2 Comments:

At 8:05 PM, rjgladney said...
Congratulations, Richard on a fabulous addition to your efforts to keep us up to date with bluegrass happenings throughout the known universe.
I, for one, applaud your great work with the newsletter and this wonderful source of information.
Long may you flourish!!!
Dick Gladney
At 8:19 PM, Gary Ferguson said...
Richard,
Thanks for all your hard work. I read your blog everyday. It's been very helpful in putting together my tour. See you in July!
Gary Ferguson

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I received this E-mail from Richard Hawkins today.

The second monthly reminder that the Bluegrass Ireland Blog is here.

Since the last reminder was sent out four weeks ago, over thirty new posts have gone on to the BIB - in other words, there's a better than even chance that something new is being posted every day.

Apart from regular sessions, the main event scheduled in the next four weeks is a tour by a young US artist, Korby Lenker (see post of 1 November for link and more details).

But keep checking the BIB and its calendar, in case something comes up at short notice.

Richard Hawkins
Editor, BLUEGRASS IRELAND
bluegrassireland.blogspot.com [note new form of the address]

BLUEGRASS IRELAND

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In case you hadn't noticed, Richard Hawkins has written a great plug for this Forum, on the current Blog.

Thanks Richard.

Old-time Music Forum for Europe

Thanks to Dick Glasgow of Causeway Music, who organises the Causeway Dulcimer Festival at Bushmills, Co. Antrim, for the news that he has just launched an Old Time Music Forum for this side of the Pond, with improved security against misuse by spammers. You can find it, and sign on, either here or at the Causeway Music website.

While you're in the neighbourhood, stop off at Dick's Old Time Music page. A visit to Causeway Music's MySpace is worth making for Dick's bio alone; there's also plenty of good hammered-dulcimer music, and a taste of what he and his wife Sabine can do on many other instruments. Thoroughly recommended!

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