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Award-winning bluegrass artist to play at National Music Museum

Award-winning bluegrass artist Dick Kimmel will be performing a free concert at the National Music Museum at noon on Oct. 7. Kimmel, a New Ulm, Minn., native, has been playing bluegrass music across the country for more than 50 years. Deborah Reeves, curator of education at the National Music Museum and head of the Brown Bag Lunch Program, said this will be Kimmel’s first performance at the University of South Dakota. “He was suggested to us because not only is he a performer, but he is a scholar in the guitar field,” Reeves said. Kimmel’s concert, “The Ambassador of Bluegrass,” came about because of his interest in a collection of Kurt Lothar Meisel violins at the music museum. “I was talking about coming down and researching some of that collection and they knew I performed and asked if I would come and do a show,” Kimmel said.
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Kimmel was inducted into America’s Old-Time Country and Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Minnesota Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Even with Kimmel’s nationally recognized fame, Reeves said she did not know how many people to expect for the show. “Sometimes we’ll get 30 people and sometimes we’ll get 100,” Reeves said. “With this fellow being new it will be difficult to tell and weather matters because if it’s really nice out, not as many people will music.” Kimmel played in Oregon last summer where he was advertised as “legendary,” but Kimmel said “there are a lot of legends in