With its 10th anniversary approaching, the Earl Scruggs Center is proud to announce the return of its annual Remembering Earl benefit concert, taking place Saturday, January 13, 2024 at Malcolm Brown Auditorium in Shelby, NC.
A decade after Earl Scruggs passed away in 2012, his namesake music festival debuted last year and returned to the Tryon International Equestrian Center for year two over Labor Day weekend, Friday September 1 through 3. The event was dreamed up, appropriately, by the folks at WNCW public radio, a nationally-known local roots and mountain music FM radio station (and so much
After two postponements, the Earl Scruggs Music Festival premiered on Labor Day weekend in southwestern North Carolina. Its equestrian center venue proved a comfortable and highly functional space for thousands of fans, while the lineup told the story of Earl Scruggs the sonic pioneer and open-minded collaborator. Craig Havighurst took it in and filed this report.