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    • Aug 28, 2006
    Billboard reports Grammy-winning Nickel Creek plans to part ways in late 2007 so the three band members can pursue solo projects
    Sep 4, 2006
    Cheryl White, of The Whites, marries Billy Paul Jones at the home of Ricky Skaggs and the bride's sister, Sharon White, in Hendersonville, Tennessee. Buck White gives her away, and the ceremony features music by Linda Davis and Alison Krauss
    Sep 13, 2006
    Earl Scruggs leads a battalion of musicians playing "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" before a Braves baseball game at Atlanta's Turner Field. The stunt is an attempt to enter "The Guinness Book Of World Records" for the largest banjo ensemble
    Sep 14, 2006
    Bluegrass mandolin player Doyle Lawson and R&B vocalist Mavis Staples are awarded a National Heritage Fellowship during a National Endowment for the Arts ceremony in Washington, D.C.
    Sep 26, 2006
    The Academy of Country Music honors Bill Monroe with its Pioneer Award during a Tuesday night Grand Ole Opry show. On hand are Ricky Skaggs, Jim Lauderdale, Jim McReynolds, Rhonda Vincent, Cherryholmes and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
    Sep 28, 2006
    The Grascals are named Entertainer of the Year and Tim O'Brien wins a pair of trophies during the International Bluegrass Music Association awards at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville
    Sep 29, 2006
    Nashville mayor Bill Purcell unveils a historic marker designating the Ryman Auditorium, where Bill Monroe first played with Flatt & Scruggs, as the birthplace of bluegrass music. On hand are Earl Scruggs, Eddie Stubbs and Ricky Skaggs
    Sep 30, 2006
    Dobro player Uncle Josh Graves dies in Nashville. He spent 15 years as a member of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs' bluegrass group, the Foggy Mountain Boys, helping to bring the instrument to wider popularity
    Oct 3, 2006
    Funeral services are held for Dobro ace Josh Graves at the Madison Funeral Home in Nashville. Ricky Skaggs and The Whites sing "Farther Along," and Marty Stuart performs the Graves composition "Flatt Lonesome"
    Nov 5, 2006
    A banjo owned by "Gotta Travel On" songwriter Pete Seeger during the 1960s is given to the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky



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