Author: Brance

IBMA 2006 Emerging Artist of the Year, Steep Canyon Rangers, will be featured on BluegrassCountry.org this afternoon. If you live in the DC area you can listen in high def on WAMU 88.5 channel 3. If not, you can listen

UPDATED 11/9: The dates indicated for Carrie's Studio Special when this was first posted were incorrect, owing to mistaken information being provided to us. The dates shown below have been edited, and are correct. Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain, will be

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the first two album releases by Rounder Records. Rounder 0001 - George Pegram and Rounder 0002 - The Spark Gap Wonder Boys were both released on October 20th, 1970. In the following 36 years Rounder

Listen now: (IE users click to activate) This episode of The GrassCast features an interview with Michael Cleveland. Michael was nominated for several awards at the recent IBMA and won two of them. The interview was

Destination festival Merlefest has just announced it's artist lineup for 2007. The event is scheduled to be held April 26-29, 2007. Tickets will go on sale Tuesday November 14, 2006 at 2:00 PM EST. Remember that this line up is subject

Express, a blog belonging to the Washington Post, has a short article up about Chris Thile. They quote Chris on the topic of bluegrass tradition. Chris expresses his viewpoint in words similar to those he used in our recent GrassCast

That's the question that's answered in the final installment of Wichita Rutherford's IBMA video clips. It's one of Wichita's great True or Rumor podcasts. If you just can't stay out the personal life of a bluegrass celebrity and have to

For those of you desiring to learn old-time banjo, or frailing banjo as it's sometimes called, here is a resource you might want to check out. Patrick Costello has a book available called The How and the Tao of Old

This one probably should have been filed under celebrity gossip or something, but we don't have a category for that. Anyway, according to the PR Inside website, Brad Pitt is learning to play the mandolin. And not for a role

This morning I was surfing around the net and discovered that Rounder Records has a video online about Bradley Walker. They're calling it an ecard, but it's more like a mini-documentary. It contains some obvious promotional elements, but that's ok.