Dr. Ralph Stanley To Serve on Birthplace of Country Music Alliance's Artistic Council

Dr. Ralph Stanley is one of several members of a newly established artistic council for the Birthplace of Country Music Alliance’s cultural heritage center.

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Congratulations, Dr. Ralph!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Ralph!

From all your friends at the Ralph Stanley Museum & Traditional Mountain Music Center, we'd like to wish you a very happy birthday!

Virginia Legislature Honors Dr. Ralph Stanley

Congratulations, Dr. Ralph, on your commendation from the Virginia legislature! For a brief article highlighting this honor, visit TriCities.com.

Ralph Stanley Nominated for Grammy

Ralph Stanley’s Carter Family Homage Nominated for Folk Grammy

Win Would Give Musical Patriarch His Fourth Such Award

Nashville, TN (December 7, 2006) – Already a Grammy-winner in the country and bluegrass music categories, Grand Ole Opry star Ralph Stanley has just been nominated for Best Traditional Folk Album Grammy. The nomination is for his recent DMZ/Columbia Records collection, A Distant Land To Roam: Songs Of The Carter Family.

Nominees for the 49^th annual Grammy Awards were announced today (Dec. 7) in Hollywood. The winners will be revealed Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, in a live three-and-a-half hour broadcast on CBS-TV from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

This year, Stanley will be competing against critically praised albums from Bruce Springsteen, Odetta, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Linda Ronstadt & Ann Savoy.

The 79-year-old Stanley won his first two Grammy Awards for 2001 when the soundtrack of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (on which he appeared prominently) was voted Album of the Year and his chilling rendition of “O Death” from that same album was picked as Best Male Country Vocal Performance. (In the latter category, he was pitted against such heavyweights as Tim McGraw, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Ryan Adams.)

In 2002, Stanley’s collaboration with Jim Lauderdale—Lost In The Lonesome Pines—won the Best Bluegrass Album Grammy.

The nomination comes less than a month after Stanley was honored at the White House with the National Medal of Arts, a tribute for artistic excellence issued by the National Endowment for the Arts. President George Bush presented Stanley the award.

Josh Turner & Ralph Stanley - "Me And God"

If you haven't heard "Me And God," Josh Turner's recent duet with Ralph Stanley, you can now hear the entire song from the Universal Music Group website for Turner's latest CD Your Man.

Many thanks to The Bluegrass Blog for posting this information so we can bring the news to you. Make sure you visit their website as well!

President Bush Announces 2006 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal Recipients

Congratulations, Dr. Ralph, on receiving the National Medal of Arts!

This press release is available on the web at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/11/20061108.html

President George W. Bush today announced the National Medal of Arts recipients and National Humanities Medal recipients for 2006.

The awards will be presented by the President in an Oval Office ceremony on Thursday, November 9, 2006. The President will be joined by First Lady Laura Bush, Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts, and Dr. Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities.

National Humanities Medal Recipients:

Fouad Ajami, Middle Eastern Studies Scholar - Washington, DC

James Buchanan, Economist - Fairfax, VA

Nickolas Davatzes, Historian - Wilton, CT

Robert Fagles, Translator and Classicist - Princeton, NJ

The Hoover Institution (John Raisian, Senior Fellow and Director of the Hoover Institution, will accept the award on behalf of the Institution) - Palo Alto, CA

Mary Lefkowitz, Classicist - Wellesley, MA

Bernard Lewis, Middle Eastern Studies Scholar - Princeton, NJ

Mark Noll, Historian of Religion - Notre Dame, IN

Meryle Secrest, Biographer - Washington, DC

Kevin Starr, Historian - San Francisco, CA

National Medal of Arts Recipients:

William Bolcom, Composer - Ann Arbor, MI

Cyd Charisse, Dancer - Los Angeles, CA

Roy R. DeCarava, Photographer - New York, NY

Wilhelmina C. Holladay, Arts Patron - Washington, DC

Interlochen Center for the Arts (Jeffrey Kimpton, President of Interlochen Center for the Arts, will accept the award on behalf of the Center) - Interlochen, MI

Erich Kunzel, Pops Orchestra Conductor - Cincinnati, OH (Mr. Kunzel will not be in attendance. He will receive his medal at a later date.)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band - New Orleans, LA

Gregory Rabassa, Literary Translator - New York, NY

Viktor Schreckengost, Industrial Designer - Cleveland, OH

Dr. Ralph Stanley, Bluegrass Musician - Dickenson County, VA