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Listen now: (IE users click to activate) Our guest on this episode of The GrassCast is Claire Lynch. In the interview John and Claire discuss her history in bluegrass music, talk about her band members, and

Brad Laird at MandoUniversity.com has just published two new books for mandolinists. The first book is titled The Mandolin Handbook - An Owner's Manual. The book's purpose is to help the mandolin owner better understand how their instrument was built, how

Butch Baldassari sent along a note to let let people know about a mandolin workshop he's holding November 11, 2006 in the Nashville area. There will be workshops for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. The workshops will be held at

As reported earlier this morning, BlueHighways TV has gone broadband, cutting a deal with Narrowstep to deliver content online. At the time that post was published the BlueHighways TV website had not been updated with the Narrowstep information. It has

BlueHighways TV has just announced a deal with Narrowstep to deliver BlueHighways TV online via Narrowstep's telvOS system. The channel is scheduled to launch today October 25, 2006. To access the new channel simply visit BlueHighwaysTV.com and click on the

We just received a note from the guys over at Fretboard Journal to let us know that the November 2006 issue, their fourth - it's a quarterly publication, will begin mailing to subscribers and stores later this week. The cover

If you've been following Wichita Rutherford's video podcasts lately, you know that Wichita's last attempt to impersonate Ricky Skaggs was met with disapproval by his card playing buddies from Three Ring Circle. He said he was done trying and there

I meant to post about this yesterday as John did, but got caught up working on a Ron Stewart DVD, more about that soon. Here are my thoughts about Saturday's performance. I was as impressed as John was with the concert.

Alison Krauss in a Santa Suit? It could happen. Well probably not, but she will be aboard the 2006 Santa Train, The Santa Special. The train will be traveling a 110-mile route between Kingsport, TN and Pikeville, KY, stopping in

Over the weekend I came across a post on Ron Block's website stating that overdubs are almost complete on what appears to be a new solo project from Ron. Overdubs continue in my basement studio. I'm looking to finish all my