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Short notice, but if you catch this piece in time, you can hear a Doyle Lawson interview this morning (5/29) on WAMU's BluegrassCountry.org. Doyle will join host Katy Daley on the phone at 9:00 a.m. to talk about his latest CD, Help Is On The Way, and his upcoming Alaskan cruise. Katy says that she [...]
Colorado's Spring Creek has another trophy for their mantle. On top of winning the band competitions at both the RockyGrass and Telluride festivals in 2007, they have now been named as the winners of the Vox Populi award from online viewers in the 2007 Independent Music Awards. Their song, High Up in the Mountains, was [...]
Fast Paced World is the title of the fourth CD release from Canadian string band adventurists, The Duhks, due August 12 from Sugar Hill Records. The band has consistently avoided easy labels, with their eclectic mix of styles and influences, though largely staying close to traditional acoustic string band instruments. Judging by Mighty Storm, the [...]
Last week, Brance had a wonderful story about Joel Sidney, a recent University of California at Berkeley graduate, whose honors thesis was entitled Innovation and Tradition in Bay Area Bluegrass: Historical Review and Analysis of Distinctive Regional Features. Here's another encouraging story about bluegrass on the college campus, this time at UCLA. Thomas Stanton is [...]
The live (in studio) performance by The Dan Tyminski Band on CMT's Studio 330 Up Close which we mentioned a few weeks back will be aired on CMT Pure starting later this week. The songs and interview clips from the show can be viewed now online. Dan and his crack band play four songs from [...]
J. D. Crowe and Charlie Cushman join Sonny Osborne, Alan Munde, Ned Luberecki, Bill Evans and Frank Neat to round out the teaching staff for the 8th Annual NashCamp Banjo Retreat, October 17-19th at the Hachland Hills Vineyard in Joelton, Tennessee - about 15 miles north of Nashville. This event is hosted by noted banjo [...]
The Summer 2008 issue of The Fretboard Journal is set to be mailed to subscribers next week, with a cover feature on Chris Thile. The piece is an interview, conducted by fellow mandolin trailblazer David Grisman, who graced the cover of the inaugural issue of the magazine in 2005. Also profiled in this issue is [...]
Our friend Doug McKelway, who anchors the local news broadcasts for WJLA TV in Washington, DC, was invited to The Del McCoury Band's sound check yesterday prior to the start of DelFest in Cumberland, MD. Doug is also a fine banjo picker, and he got a chance to jam with the band some in the [...]
Rhonda Vincent will be a featured guest on this weekend's edition of A Prairie Home Companion, carried on over 500 public radio stations in the US. Ms. Vincent and her talented band, The Rage, will join host Garrison Keillor and his cast of radio raconteurs, plus celebrated tenor, Ra??l Melo. The show will be broadcast [...]
Gracie Muldoon, general manager and popular on-air host on WorldWideBluegrass.com, is really psyched about the interview segments of her Muldoon In The Afternoon program today (5/23). The show runs from noon to 2:00 p.m. (EDT) and will feature a half hour discussion with Jamie Daley and Darrin Vincent, followed by a surprise special guest. Gracie [...]
