Yesterday (3/25), Boston's distaff grassers, Della Mae, played to a sold-out, hometown crowd at Club Passim. Here the band played some of their earliest gigs during the formative years, and Sunday's show featured both a triumphant homecoming, and an emotional
Dan Boner, Director of the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music program, has shared this news about a beloved faculty member who has gone on. E.C. Miller passed away around midnight. Among the most respected banjo players in East Tennessee,
Hudson James VanCleve, the third child of Mountain Heart fiddler Jim VanCleve and his lovely wife Desneige, was born at 10:34 p.m. yesterday in Nashville. Jim says that he weighed in at 8 lbs, 3 oz and 20.5 '' long. A hearty
The Tompkins Square label, based in San Francisco, has chosen a fun way to celebrate Record Store Day this year. Where many record companies highlight the long term contribution of record stores by re-releasing albums on vinyl, Tompkins Square is going
A number of faculty positions have been announced in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. This department, organized under the ETSU School of Appalachian Studies, nows offers a bachelor's degree for studying American acoustic,
WAMU's Bluegrass Country has posted a new video of Rhonda Vincent & The Rage tearing through a cool medley of instrumental bluegrass favorites when they performed on the Katy Daley Show on February 2. Rhonda featured each of her top shelf
New England alt-grassers Three Tall Pines have released a video for Black Sunday Blues, a band original from their current All That's Left album. The guys describe this as a classic dustbowl song, and the video captures them performing it live
The Farm Hand Quartet, a bluegrass Gospel group featuring veteran grassers Tim Graves, Daryl Mosley and Kevin Williamson, are on the hunt for a new banjo player. The band is based in Nashville, and tours extensively throughout the central US. According to
After a handful of delays lasting several years, Mark Meatto's film, How To Grow A Band, is finally scheduled to open in April. The project is an in-depth look at Chris Thile's ambitious composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind, which he wrote
Here's a heartwarming story for a lovely Spring day, sent by our friends at Nechville Musical Products. Trout Fishing In America is the name used by children's entertainers Ezra Idlet and Keith Grimwood for their duo show, an odd choice for
