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09/28/2026

A few photos from the North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival in Cherokee, NC. Cody Norris Show. (more later this week)

09/27/2026

A few photos from the North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival in Cherokee, NC. Cody Norris Show. (Click on photo to see full picture)

09/27/2026

A few photos from the North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival in Cherokee, NC. Cody Norris Show. (more tomorrow)

08/29/2026

Hope you've enjoyed this week's featured band, Lonesome River Band and they're performance at North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival. Visit WNC Concert Images next week to see who will be featured!

08/28/2026

Want a little more of Lonesome River Band? They're featured on WNC Concert Images all this week.

08/28/2026

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Happy Heavenly Birthday to J.D. Crowe.

James Dee Crowe was born on August 27, 1937, in Lexington, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo early on and was offered a job with Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, a backup group in 1954. Before starting in Martin's band, Crowe played with P*e Wee Lambert and Curly Parker.

Crowe recorded with Martin between 1956 and 1960. In 1961, he formed the Kentucky Mountain Boys, principally performing in the Lexington region. In 1971, Crowe changed the band's name to The New South. As of 1975, the New South began to add jazz and rock influences on its bluegrass repertoire, as well as country and folk elements drawn from the work of Gram Parsons and Gordon Lightfoot, respectively.

Crowe received the Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Dallas, Texas, on October 15, 2011. The award is bestowed upon bluegrass artists who do an exemplary job of advancing traditional bluegrass music and bringing it to new audiences while preserving its character and heritage.

He died from pneumonia on December 24, 2021, in Nicholasville, Kentucky, at the age of 84.

08/27/2026

08/27/2026

More Lonesome River Band, all this week on WNC Concert Images.

08/27/2026