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The Earl Scruggs Story on UNC TV

By Earl Scruggs Center | March 10, 2014

Check out the Earl Scruggs Center story told in this exclusive behind-the-scenes video tour from UNC TV’s North Carolina Weekend broadcast.

Earl Scruggs Center Sneak Peek

By Earl Scruggs Center | January 5, 2014

Thanks to the Charlotte Observer, you can get a sneak peek into the fully renovated 1907 courthouse that hosts the Earl Scruggs Center. We encourage you to tour the museum […]

Earl Scruggs Center featured in the New York Times

By Earl Scruggs Center | January 3, 2014

Check out our most recent feature in the New York Times, highlighting our efforts to curate the best of Shelby, NC and bluegrass music. To see and experience the Earl […]

Listen Now: Earl Scruggs Center featured on the John Boy and Billy Show

By Earl Scruggs Center | November 27, 2013

Last week, Earl Scruggs Center staff and the Scruggs family joined John Boy and Billy live on air to talk about the life and legacy of a music legend. We’ve […]

EARL SCRUGGS CENTER EXPANDS LINEUP FOR GRAND OPENING EVENT REMEMBERING EARL: MUSIC & STORIES

By Earl Scruggs Center | November 26, 2013

Adds Bank of the Ozarks as Grand Opening Weekend Sponsor Shelby, N.C. – The Earl Scruggs Center: Music & Stories from the American South today announced that Grammy Award winning multi-instrumentalist, […]

Remembering The Ballad of Jed Clampett

By Earl Scruggs Center | November 26, 2013

Shelby, N.C. – Fifty-one years ago today, on November 26, 1962, Columbia Records released “The Ballad of Jed Clampett,” a bluegrass number performed by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs that […]

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