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Colorado banjoist Jake Schepps will be premiering another new classical composition scored for a bluegrass group (banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, bass) on December 6 at the eTown Hall in Boulder, CO. It's part of a series of four pieces he's commissioned, all of which will be recorded for a CD release in September 2014. This untitled [...]
Every time I get angry about cable TV rates or restrictions, and turn my mind to the notion of doing without, there are a few things that slam on the brakes. One is live sports, and the other is DVR. I can't imagine life without baseball, or the convenience of watching the few programs I [...]
Ned Luberecki and Stephen Mougin are touring this month in England, and Stephen is sending along a travelogue of their time across the pond. Day 5 turns into a wild goose chase. Ned needed to get a bunch of radio stuff done this morning before we checked out of our “hotel” in London. We walked out [...]
West Virginia mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Rachel Burge is heading in to the studio next week with her band, Blue Dawning. They will start work on a debut band project, following up on Burge's stellar 2012 solo album, Don't You Worry About Me. Going in with her are two new members of the band. Radford and [...]
This week the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville hosted Ricky Skaggs as an artist-in-residence. Given his prominence in both bluegrass and country music, the museum sponsored two nights of shows: one celebrating Skaggs in each genre, with fellow superstars joining him on stage from each slice of the discipline. Emily Hester, Media [...]
