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Happy Birthday, Willie Nelson – 80 y.o.

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Country music legend Willie Nelson will celebrate 8 decades on Earth today by — what else — playing a concert.  Nelson, whose birthday is April 30 according to his birth certificate (he claims April 29), is scheduled to play in Continue reading →

MerleFest happens this weekend

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MerleFest, the “traditional plus” music festival on the Wilkes Community College campus in Wilkesboro, NC, runs today through Sunday, April 25-28. Named in honor of Doc Watson’s son Merle, who died in 1985, the festival has been held the last Continue reading →