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2009 was a momentous one for the Brewglass Boys. We were featured at two of our favorite festivals, Wintergrass and Rockygrass. We began working on a new album, to be released later this year. And we had another year full of fun evenings with great friends, brews, and tunes. 2009 was also the year that we lost our dear friend and band-mate, Rick Hendricks. Rick passed on December 7, on the very night that a huge group of his friends was gathered to honor and celebrate his life by making music together. We will miss Rick, and carry him in our hearts and music as we launch into our 9th year. 2010 promises to be an exciting year for us, and we hope you'll join us this Monday January 4th at Amnesia as we ring in the new year, Brewglass style! |
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We will be playing at a very special show coming up on December 7th, a Tribute to our longtime Brewglass Boys band-mate, friend, and all around great musician "Resonator" Rick Hendricks. Rick was diagnosed a little over year ago with brain cancer, and despite treatment his health has declined recently to he point of hospice care. Please come out to Amnesia on Monday December 7th to raise glass to Rick while being entertained by many of the many bands and musicians who have had the honor of playing with Rick over the past few decades. Rick is too sick to be in attendance, but he'll feel the love.
It should be a special evening, hosted by Belle Monroe and Her Brewglass Boys, and also with: The Shut-Ins, The Jiffy Mellows, Steve Norris, The Anchor Band, Babar Jug Band, Kevin Johnson, Jivanno's Cutlery Service, Gayle Lynn, and Rick's nephew Alex!  |
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Belle and the Boys have been laying low, working out some new material and arrangements. Our plan is to record a new album over the winter for a spring 2010 release... stay tuned! In the meantime, you can always catch us at Amnesia on the first Monday of each month; we should be debuting some of those new songs in October! Also in October, we'll be celebrating Hardly Strictly Bluegrass weekend with a show at the Plough & Stars on Saturday 10/3. We're sharing the bill with our friends Gayle Lynn and the Hired Hands, and the Shut-Ins. See you there! |
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ROCKYGRASS!! All aboard for the funnest week anyone can have this side of the Mississippi. The Brewglass Boys will be picking, tubing, eating, drinking and generally merrymaking next week at the 2009 Rockgrass Bluegrass festival. We'll be playing on Saturday in the Planet's beautiful new Wildflower Pavilion. To cap off the weekend, we'll be rocking Boulder at the Mountain Sun Pub and Restaurant. If you're out that way come on down and say howdy! |
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The Fillmore!! Yes, it's true, Belle and the Boys will be picking at the infamous Fillmore Auditorium this coming Thursday, July 9th. The main stage show is The Old 97s, and we will be supporting in the world-famous Poster Room Lounge in between sets. We met the guys in the Old 97s last fall at the Strawberry Music Festival, as we played the same day. Upon finding some copies of our set list lying around the green room they were amazed that another band also had a song called Doreen, and in the same key too! We clued then in later and we all had a good chuckle... |
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Belle is back from her European jaunt; she and the Brewglass Boys have gigs this week at a couple of our favorite watering holes, Iron Springs Pub & Brewery and the Atlas Cafe. Hope you can join us! Also: Belle and the Boys are in the market for a new logo, and we're deciding to have a design contest! Here's your chance to get your design turned into stickers, beer cozies, and who knows what else. We'll even throw in a prize for the winner: copies of our CD, and a t-shirt! Please send all entries to
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Belle, Diana and Ted went up to Tahoe this past weekend and teamed up with Alhambra Valley Band's Mitch Polzak and 49 Special's Tyson Alteri to deliver a rocking bluegrass show on the deck at Sugar Bowl's Judah Lodge. Due to a typo on the lodge's entertainment listing, we were billed as Belle Manore and her Brewglass Boys! With Belle on bass duties, Tyson on guitar and Mitch on Banjo, Ted on mando and Diana on fiddle, Belle Manore and the random boys and girl pulled off a great show. We could try to describe the fantastic setting and awesome weather, but instead will publish here something that was scribbled on a piece of paper by a young guy sitting right in front and dropped into our tip jar. Enjoy... The sun is bright and the day is shining. A bluegrass quintet warms the air. Everyone smiles. Sunday and a fiddle; beauteous. Reflections of a white snow glitter in the eyes of the young, beer in the old. One man has gin. Momentarily I am engulfed. Good as beer for the hangover, and less expensive. Music runs through my heart, primarily because they put their hearts into their music. A band of cool cats with cool glasses. Lonely and adventurous clouds pass the sky, though they can blot neither the sun nor the spirit. Bluegrass! Mandolin Man maintains. Bass blasts. Guitar to the lead, all smiles. I appreciate this! Elvis rocks the banjo. Five-on-it says it ain't the first time he's encountered the comparison. Is the gray real? Outfitted retro with a young soul. Dichotomous or confused, we won't ask. The fiddler defies proper description, though my attention warrents lovely as a secondary substitute. Blush...Still engulfed. Encouraging for an ADHD kid. Thank you. Nature nears springtime and the butterflies are blooming! |
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