The Bluegrass Blog » The Ebony Hillbillies http://www.thebluegrassblog.com News at the speed of Bluegrass! Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:47:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 The Ebony Hillbillies http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/the-ebony-hillbillies/ http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/the-ebony-hillbillies/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:34:59 +0000 Richard Thompson http://www.thebluegrassblog.com/the-ebony-hillbillies/ The Tacoma, Washington, based The News Tribune has published a story about what it considers to be a stand out band at the 15th Annual Wintergrass festival during this past weekend’s shindig. The Ebony Hillbillies weren’t even expected to be playing at the festival, but when the Carolina Chocolate Drops cancelled just days before the festival started the New York quartet got the call to fill the void.

The quartet, comprising fiddler Rique Prince, singer and multi-instrumentalist Norris Bennett, upright bass player Bill Salter and a cowboy washboard player who simply goes by the initials A.R., not only played a set on Thursday evening, they set the place alive with foot-stomping dancers in abundance.

The full story of their memorable performance can be found at the newspaper’s website.

Here is an unrelated clip of them performing in the NYC subway.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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