In March, the Charlotte Folk Society will reach a significant milestone – the 35th anniversary of its founding in 1982. The seventh concert in our 2016-2017 Gathering Series features the ...

On Friday, October 27th, Arts Council of the Valley’s Court Square Theater Music Series will continue with the Grammy-nominated Special Consensus. The Special Consensus, also known as The Special C, ...

This cover image released by Compass Records shows "Chicago Barn Dance" by Special Consensus. (Compass Records via AP) Special Consensus, "Chicago Barn Dance” (Compass) Chicago blues is a sound and a ...

PARAGOULD, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Special Consensus will present a concert of bluegrass music at the next KASU-FM Bluegrass Monday concert on Monday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at Collins Theatre, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Life can sometimes turn on a tune and it was a tune from singer and guitarist Lester Flatt and banjo player Earl Scruggs that ...

Greg Cahill never planned on being a professional bluegrass musician when he first discovered the music of Earl Scruggs as a young man in the early 1970s. But now he's one of the genre's elder ...

When soul music was king in 1975 Chicago, four guys got together to play a different kind of music. Since that time, bands and trends have come and gone. But after four decades, 17 recordings, and ...

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Greg Cahill has been playing music since he was five or six. Bluegrass music has been his style of choice since he founded his acclaimed band, The Special Consensus, 47 years ago. Cahill and his three ...