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Today's Morning Edition music is from a pair of musicians.  

The first is bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley with "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." A funeral service for Stanley, who died Thursday at age 89, will be held Tuesday in the Virginia mountains where his annual bluegrass festival takes place. It's open to the public. 

 He was a founding member of the funk and soul collective Parliament/Funkadelic. His keyboard playing and composing were a crucial part of the P-Funk sound. Worrell died Friday at the age of 72.

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Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley died Thursday at the age of 89, while Bernie Worrell, a founding member of the funk and soul collective Parliament/Funkadelic, passed Friday at the age of 72.

Today's Morning Edition music is from a pair of musicians.  The first is bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley with "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." A funeral service for Stanley will be held tomorrow in the Virginia mountains where his annual bluegrass festival takes place. It is open to the public. Stanley died Thursday at the age of 89. We've also learned of the passing of Bernie Worrell.  He was a founding member of the funk and soul collective Parliament/Funkadelic.

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