Author: Brance

If you are looking for something to do this New Year's Eve, here's an option you might consider. Garrison Keillor, from A Prairie Home Companion, will be hosting a live New Year's Eve broadcast from the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Here's a show you may want to hurry up and buy tickets for if you are able to attend. Mountain Stage, in Charleston, WV, will be taping a live show on Sunday, February 11th, 2007 featuring J.D. Crowe & The

There is an entire sub-genre of bluegrass, referred to as Jewgrass, performed by Jewish musicians around the country. A recent Harvard grad even wrote an award winning scholarly piece about the history of such music and I'll be publishing an

With the holidays quickly approaching John and I have decided to forgo further podcasts until after the first of year. The interviews are a great deal of work and with both of us traveling for Christmas with our families it

The Roots Music Report is an online resource that reports radio play charts for a number of "roots" genres including bluegrass. Their charts are compiled based on playlists submitted by the stations/DJs. It looks fairly easy to sign up to

I've been watching the latest round of campaign ads by the candidates that are running for Mayor of Bluegrass and I've got a couple comments. First of all Trent Dobbins. This guy is an importer of organic salmon? He's pretty scary

As strange as it may sound, Wichita Rutherford has a podcast up over at his blog that features an interview with Lester Flatt. I won't go into detail explaining how he got the chance to do the interview, but let's

The bluegrass trading season is in full swing and The Dale Ann Bradley Band has acquired new members in the recent trades. Dale Ann has gathered together some great bluegrass musicians to put together her new high powered band. The first

Planet Bluegrass has announced the preliminary artist lineup for it's 34th annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival. This festival has become a destination festival that people travel from all over the world to attend. After looking at the lineup for next year,

Listen now: (IE users click to activate) This week on The GrassCast we continue our theme of interviewing members of the new band Grasstowne. Last week we interviewed Phil Leadbetter. This week John interviews Alan Bibey. Alan has been fronting