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As was presaged here in late March, Handleman Corp - a major distributor of recorded music to retailers - has announced that they will cease the music portion of their business activities. The Detroit News has reported that Handleman will liquidate inventory and operating assets in their music division over the next few months, and [...]
The International Bluegrass Music Museum has announced a special day of honors for the people they describe as the First Generation of bluegrass. The day long event, dubbed The Pioneers Of Bluegrass Gathering, will include an honors ceremony, Legends Concert and a Legends Supper, all in conjunction with the ROMP 2008 festival in Owensboro, KY. [...]
With more than 75,000 music lovers in attendance - a great many with video recorders of some kind - it should come as no surprise that dozens of videos shot at Merlefest 2008 have popped up on YouTube. Of course at such an eclectic festival, the offerings range from old time bluegrass... ...to more experimental [...]
Blue Highway has found itself once again in the pages of Guitar Player magazine, surely among the most widely-circulated periodicals for musicians in the world. Resonator guitarist Rob Ickes was profiled in those pages in February of 2007, and both he and Tim Stafford are interviewed in the June 2008 issue. The focus of the [...]
Chris Thile will be a guest on A Prairie Home Companion this weekend, sans the rest of his Punch Brothers merry band. The show will broadcast live from Las Cruces, NM on May 31 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. (EDT) over a great many stations in the US, and on XM Satellite Radio track 133. Broadcast times [...]
Last night's (5/29) Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver concert at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC can be viewed online. The show runs just over an hour and includes a number of Doyle's most popular numbers, plus several songs from his current Gospel release, Help Is On The Way. It may also be your last chance [...]
The second Rural Rhythm release from Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain isn't due until July 29, but a single has been released to bluegrass radio this week. The song is I Can Go Back Anytime, written by Jennifer Strickland, who had also contributed the song Going On The Next Train for Carrie's first project. This [...]
Audie Blaylock and Redline will be guests on today's (5/30) noontime edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. They have been hard at work on a new CD, which Audie promises will be chock full of hard-driving, traditional bluegrass music. They are sure to preview it on the show today. Joining Audie in the band [...]
The folks at Flatpicking Guitar magazine has launched a new web site which they call The Flatpicking Guitar Network. It is designed like popular social networking sites (MySpace, Face Book) and allows users to post their own photos, news and videos and fosters easy online communication among like-minded flatpickers. Users can also post information about [...]
As a Virginia native, I hold a longstanding appreciation for the commonwealth and its art, culture, people and natural beauty. But I'll not be surprised or disappointed if people entering this new contest prefer as their prize a new Wayne Henderson guitar over a trip for two to my beloved home state. The contest to [...]
