Not long now until the 3rd Annual Jake Quesenberry Memorial Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival, September 5,6 & 7 in San Martin, CA (South of San Jose, near Gilroy)!
Lots of jamming, and lots of great bluegrass, including High Country, Ed Neff’s Blue and Lonesome, RoseBud Blue, and many more!
You can download a ticket order form here, […]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by Matt
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On February 16, 2008 the late Pleasant Valley Artist MacRae Brothers’ Jake Quesenberry will be awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Northern California Bluegrass Society at the innaugural Bluegrass On Broadway festival held in Redwood City, CA. Slated to present the award is Jake’s late-life singing partner, and fellow MacRae Brothers band member, […]
Posted on February 7th, 2008 by Matthew
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Surfed by the International Bluegrass Music Museum webpage today and found this lovely piece. Turns out the good folks there at the IBMM have dedicated this year’s ROMP festival to ole Jakey. Check out these screenshots from their page:
Posted on December 5th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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Jacob Onsby Quesenberry, of Pleasant Valley’s MacRae Brothers, died of heart failure in the early afternoon of Tuesday July 3, 2007 at Veterans Administration Health Care System hospital in Palo Alto, California.
Jake was born in Salt Lick, Virginia on April 15, 1930. At 15 years old Jake ’snuck’ into the Army, which sent him to […]
Posted on July 9th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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Or at least IN a storm! Along with the thunder and lightening came some wonderful music at this year’s ROMP festival in Owensboro. As always, the MacRae Brothers put on a wonderfully entertaining show. Jake’s charismatic nature won over the hearts of all present and once again left his mark on Kentucky.
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Posted on June 26th, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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Pleasant Valley Music is proud to announce that Jake Quesenberry, from the MacRae Brothers, is being honored as a “Master Musician” as part of the International Bluegrass Music Museum’s oral video history project. Jake and Matt are bringing a special version of the MacRae Brothers to Owensboro for a performance on June 23.
For […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2007 by pleasantvalley
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