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KENTUCKY COLONEL
DAN KNOWLES
“OLD TIME BANJO FOR A NEW AGE”
NATIONAL OLD TIME BANJO CHAMPION 2003
2002-2006 TENNESSEE STATE TOURING ARTIST
2006, 2003, 2002, 1999 and 1998 TENNESSEE STATE OLD TIME BANJO CHAMPION
2004 named KENTUCKY COLONEL
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“IMAGINE…
BILL MONROE meeting GRANDPA JONES at a GRATEFUL DEAD concert. That’s as close as I can come to describing DAN KNOWLES.
THIS IS ‘FEEL GOOD’ MUSIC and PURE ENTERTAINMENT!”
Grady Kirkpatrick host of ‘MUSIC FROM THE FRONT PORCH’
W.K.M.S. FM MURRAY, KY
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BY HIMSELF ...ON THE RIVERBARGE RIVER EXPLORER ON THE OHIO RIVER NEAR CAIRO.
with his HOT BAND
Wowing the audience of the RIVER EXPLORER with Todd Cook (bass), Tim May (dobro/ mandolin), Brian Christenson (fiddle) Dan Knowles and Mark McWherter (guitar).

Playing his Minstrel Banjo "Old Cremona" on the Sprague Stage on the River Explorer.
On
the Grand Ole’ Opry with
Tim May.

Backstage and prepairing to go on stage at Murray State Universitys' Robert Johnson Theatre with bassist Scott Thile and violinist Mark Evitts in a show for W.K.M.S. FM.
With Tim May at the Kentucky State Senate.
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Knowles String Instruments
107 East Ruff Street
Paris, TN 38242 731-644-1157
dan@danknowles.net
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