When we posted last week about the birth of Aaron McDaris’ daughter, Katie, we said we would post a photo when we could get one. And here she is.
Aaron is the new banjo player with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, and you can see several more pictures of Katie with her big brother Ethan on Rhonda’s message board.
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Aaron McDaris, the incoming banjo player with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, has something else to celebrate this Christmas season.
He and his wife, Amy, welcomed their second child, Katie Leann, on December 8. She was born at 3:46 (EST) and weighed in at 7 pounds 4 ounces, and 19.5 inches long.
We'll...
This was a happy week for banjo pickers!
We posted on Tuesday that Aaron McDaris and his wife celebrated the birth of their daughter, Katie Leann, on Monday.
It turns out that Monday was also a special day for Graham Sharp and his wife, Seph. They welcomed their daughter, Rosalie Cass Sharp, that...
As has been widely speculated this past few weeks, Rhonda Vincent has confirmed that Aaron McDaris is her new banjo player, and that Ben Helson is taking the guitar spot. Both take the job effective today (11/24).
McDaris had been performing as a member of The Grascals and Helson leaves Ricky Skaggs...
Rounder Records has announced the title of Rhonda Vincent's latest CD, Destination Life, due to be released on June 16. A track list can be see on her web site, but no audio samples have made available as yet.
Three of the songs were co-written by Ms. Vincent, and she also produced the recording,...
Brance and I are backstage at the Opry, getting ready to live blog tonight's International Bluegrass Music Awards. We just got word that Rhonda Vincent is feeling a bit under the weather, and won't be able to perform on the show.
Russell Moore from IIIrd Tyme Out had been set to play guitar and sing...
A poster at the official Rhonda Vincent Message Board tells of an incident at a 2/23 performance in Augusta. GA. Three people were arrested at the Imperial Theater as they became unruly when unable to get into the show.
They arrived very intoxicated. Were asked to leave, yet they refused, they started...
The Grascals have just announced that Aaron McDaris will be their new banjo player. He has been working this past six years with Larry Stephenson, and has a solo project, First Time Around, on Pinecastle Records.
He takes the spot of former original Grascals banjo player David Talbot, who left the...
Our friend Dean Hoffmeyer sent along some great photos from yesterday's 2009 SPBGMA Awards in Nashville.
Dean is a professional photojournalist (Richmond Times Dispatch), banjo enthusiast, and free-lance photographer with an interest in bluegrass music. He has shot a number of recent CD covers and...
Rhonda Vincent reports on her web site that they will complete the tracking for her next CD today. She says that they plan to finish mixing over the remainder of January, with an eye towards a release on Rounder Records in early June.
After a long day in the studio yesterday, Rhonda wrote that they...
We have not yet found a listing of the complete SPBGMA Awards, but will post the winners (or a link to a list) when we find them.
We did receive a note from Julia Yocum with Rhonda Vincent's fan club with a listing of their awards:
JOSH WILLIAMS - Guitar Performer of the Year
HUNTER BERRY - Fiddle...
Herb Sandker, husband of Rhonda Vincent and President of Upper Management Inc., was hospitalized briefly this weekend after experiencing chest and arm pains on Friday (8/24). Rhonda left the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival where she was performing Friday, and was able to join him at the hospital on Saturday...
Rhonda Vincent has announced that the newest member of her band will be Darrell Webb, performing on guitar and vocals. Darrell had previously been a member of Wildfire, J.D. Crowe & The New South and Lonesome River Band, playing mandolin.
Rhonda is taking most of the remainder of 2007 off the...
This afternoon, I had a lovely chat with Lynn Morris and Marshall Wilborn. Longtime bluegrass fans are well familiar with Lynn’s many years as a performer, bandleader and friend to our music, and we all felt a great loss when she suffered a stroke in Match of 2003, keeping her off the road and out [...]
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