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The blog about our jam "U Supa"

If anyone would tell me one month ago that this jam will be mentioned in a report of a BBC reporter Rosie Johnston and on the top of it "someone" would add our jam even on an internet blog (normally devoted to Prague's restaurants and gourmet food), I would have thought he was pulling my leg. But the opposite has actually happened and here is the link:

(This Article is already about two year old, but I believe its message is still very valid.) During IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) World of Bluegrass Business Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, the inventors of the Dobro, the Dopyera Brothers, were honored with Distinguished Achievement Award.

IBMA’s Distinguished Achievement Award is one of the association’s highest honors and recognitions for those in bluegrass music who have proven to be forerunners in their particular field of endeavor, or those who have fostered bluegrass music image with developments that broaden this music’s recognition and accessibility.

PRAGUE — A recent concert in Prague demonstrated the far-flung reach of an infectious musical genre that spells “Americana” from the first ringing twang of a finger-picked string.

Jimmy Martin was not the first great bluegrass lead singer. But; He is the Epitome of bluegrass singing, and has no peer. Martin was first heard with Bill Monroe on classics such as "Uncle Pen", "Walking To Jerusalem", and the incredible "On And On", available on Monroe's Country Music Hall Of Fame Series disc (MCA).