Author: Brance

The latest issue of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine is now mailing to subscribers. This issue is Volume 11, Number 4 - May/June 2007. The cover story this time around is The Pioneers of Flatpicking. The pioneers of bluegrass guitar covered in

We've talked at length on Bluegrass Today about the new CRB ruling that will increase the royalty rates for internet radio later this month. Now it seems that Congress has decided to get involved. Late last month a bill was introduced

IIIrd Tyme Out has just announced that mandolin player Wayne Benson will be returning to the band later this month. Wayne was in the band from 1992 to 2004. After leaving the band in 2004, Benson joined The John Cowan

John wrote back in January and February about the faculty position opening at South Plains College due to the retirement of banjo teacher Alan Munde. I received a call the other day from Cary Banks the Creative Music Department head,

This is the third in a series of articles about The New Music Business. Before I undertook the writing of this series on music business I wrote about the decline of CD sales and mentioned a book called The Long Tail.

The International Bluegrass Music Museum quietly launched a new internet radio station the first of this month, but now they are making some noise about it. RBI (Radio Bluegrass International), as it is called, is a non-commercial, 24-hour streaming internet broadcast

Back in the winter I told you about a book written by Christian rocker David Crowder along with his fiddle player Mike Hogan. I just finished reading it recently and thought I'd share about it for those that might be

Uncle Billy Dunbar, a host at WorldWideBluegrass.com will be "spinning" a tribute to the late Larry Rice on Thursday May 10, 2007. Larry Rice was the mandolin playing brother of guitar hero Tony Rice. Larry passed away last year during the

Knoxnews.com has a feature article today about mandolinist/singer Paul Williams. The article presents a thorough biography of Williams' music career, starting with his time spent in Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys and completing the story with Williams' current band, The

Bluegrass music travels to Carnegie Hall next weekend, May 12, 2007, when Ryan Holladay and Sierra Hull host The Carnegie Hall Family Concert Bluegrass Celebration. The concert includes these two young (Ryan is 14, Sierra is 15) multi-instrumentalists along with