Author: Brance

Marty Stuart, who just released a live bluegrass CD, will be featured on Great American Country's "GAC Classic," this evening, Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 10 a.m. (ET). Stuart will telling some amazing tales of his life in the music business. "From

Rhonda Vincent now has photos up on her website from her recent Mexican Riviera Bluegrass Cruise. Just visit her website and click on "2006 Bluegrass Cruise Photos Updated Daily!" in the upper right hand corner. There are six pages of

Orrin Star just wrote in to let us know that he is heading to the west coast this week for a 12-day solo California tour. Once described as "Arlo Guthrie-meets-Doc Watson", Star was the 1976 National Flatpicking Champion, has appeared

I just discovered this blog from the city of Ashville, NC. They had three posts about the Bluegrass First Class festival that happened this past weekend. Each post contains one photo of a bluegrass band, and they're nice photos. Just

Nickel Creek has just announced new tour dates for here in the US. They are currently on tour in England, Ireland, and Scotland. That tour is nearly sold out at this point. But they have quite a number of dates

In bluegrass we think of banjo in terms of what Earl did with the instrument. Sometimes we consider the claw-hammer style used by old time players. But rarely would we think of banjo and associate it with the blues. But

IBMA has just announced special hotel pricing and reservation procedures for this year's World of Bluegrass events to be held in Nashville, TN September 25-October 1, 2006. These prices and the block of rooms that are earmarked for reservations are

If you haven't listened to this week's episode of 5 Minutes With Wichita then you should get yourself over there and give it a listen. Wichita's guest this week is Alison Krauss and this interview is worth 5 minutes! Everyone

Episode #16 of The GrassCast features an interview with singer/songwriter Ronnie Bowman. John and Ronnie talk about Ronnie's new CD It's Gettin' Better All The Time, having a #1 hit on country radio, and what it's like living in Nashville. This

The Lonesome River Band recently launched a new website and made 2 audio tracks available as free downloads. They have since uploaded another free track. This is a new cut of the LRB favorite Tears In My Tracks and features