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On Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 18 and 19, the James A. McKee Association held its traditional Candidates Night Forum events in the Mills Lawn gym in anticipation of the upcoming Nov. 7 election.

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Local bluegrass musician Joe Mullins, alongside fellow local musician and author Fred Bartenstein, will showcase the book and album of the same name, highlighting Ohio musical heritage.

A five-year effort by scholars and musicians reveals the unknown story of how a migration of Appalachian workers helped the modern bluegrass industry flower in southwestern Ohio after World War II. The album, featuring 16 new recordings of historically important songs, was named IBMA Album of the Year last week.

/ Joe (L) and Daniel Mullins at the site of WPFB. The Mullins family has been instrumental in keeping bluegrass music thriving in Southwest, Ohio. These was a time in the 1940’s and 50’s, when people arrived from Appalachia daily in Dayton in buses and cars. They came in hopes of jobs at factories such as National Cash Register, Frigidaire and GM. Many brought guitars, mandolins and banjos and settled in East Dayton. A new book and CD, Industrial Strength Bluegrass tells this history. Dav...

/ (L-R) Dave Edmundson, Rick Good and Suzanne Thomas of the Hotmud Family at a Dayton Public School performance, 1973. A new book and its companion CD celebrate the history of bluegrass music in Southwestern Ohio. Community Voices producer Dave Barber explores a corner of that history in East Dayton, where transplants from Kentucky and other southern states settled after finding factory jobs and bluegrass music provided a soundtrack. Industrial Strength Bluegrass and its companion CD celebrat...

Miami Regionals Appalachian Studies announces Industrial Strength Bluegrass Project Mar 09, 2021 Since 2017, Miami University Regionals has been at the forefront of the Southwestern Ohio Bluegrass Music Heritage Project. This project has drawn on scholars, artists, archivists, and musicians in greater Cincinnati and the Miami Valley to explore the region’s rich bluegrass heritage and make it accessible to the public and researchers. Achievements to date include a series of public lectures and...