Benefits of bluegrass are to help couple with cancer - www.roanoke.com

Stars pulled a few well-chosen strings to help mandolinist Herschel Sizemore and his wife, Joyce, who both received cancer diagnoses on the same day last year.

If Herschel Sizemore sounded just a little bit rusty picking his mandolin on Sunday, he had a legitimate excuse.
Sizemore and his wife, Joyce, received cancer diagnoses on the same day last year. Since then, he has been treated for cancer on a tonsil and declared in remission. Joyce Sizemore is nearly finished with chemotherapy for breast cancer, though she'll soon need surgery.

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