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/ (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 celebrate the history of bluegrass music in Southwestern Ohio, including Dayton Frank Wakefield on mandolin ...

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 musical programs, a traveling panel exhibit illustrating the history of southwestern Ohio bluegrass...