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Do you love bluegrass music and have a creative, artistic streak? If so, Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe are hoping you'll enter their T-shirt and logo design contest. The contest ends on April 30, and winners will receive prizes including $200 in GHS strings and signed band merchandise. This is actually two separate contests - [...]
BluegrassRadio.org will be re-airing the Riverbend Bluegrass Festival show recorded last Saturday this evening (4/26) at 7:00 p.m. (EDT). Performers featured include Ernie Thacker, returning to the stage after his two year recovery from a serious accident, followed by The Chapmans, Grasstowne and Lou Reid and Carolina. BluegrassRadio.org is a free, listen-supported Internet radio service [...]
Mountain Heart came in #3 in the online fan voting in this week's CMT Pure 12-Pack Countdown for their Road That Never Ends video. That means that the video will be shown tonight (4/25) on television on CMTP, CMT's new digital channel. The show airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. (EDT) with rebroadcasts on Saturday (4/26) [...]
The Spring 2008 issue of Berklee Today, the official alumni publication of the Berklee College Of Music, has an interesting article on Crowd Funding. It was written by Peter Spellman, director of Berklee's Career Development Center, who has written a number of books on marketing for musicians. The concept of crowd funding is a relatively [...]
Mountain High Bluegrass Associates of Bellow Falls, VT has just published the 2008 Bluegrass Guide, featuring a cover story on native Vermonter, Dan Tyminski. Dan talks about learning to play as a young boy, his early picking days with Green Mountain Bluegrass and his tremendous success in recent years. The Bluegrass Guide is published each [...]
This weekend's Grand Ole Opry features a number of bluegrass acts. Tonight's (4/25) Friday Opry will include performances from Bobby Osborne, The Whites, Dailey & Vincent and Jesse McReynolds. Saturday's (4/26) show offers even more bluegrass, including a live television appearance by The Infamous Stringdusters on GAC TV. Look for them on Opry Live, which [...]
Friday's (4/25) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX promises a very special performance by The Road Scholars, a "one weekend only" band with some high octane vocal power. In addition to their live radio appearance, they will be performing at EarthFest 2008 on the East Tennessee State University Campus on April 26. The group [...]
Whenever we learn of a hand injury to a musician, it's always a matter of concern. When it's a legend like Bobby Hicks, who not only helped establish what excellence in bluegrass fiddle is all about over his long career, but is also approaching 75 years of age, it is of even greater immediate gravity. [...]
The Loar has announced the summer 2008 debut of their latest mandolin model. The LM-600-VS is an F-style instrument, which the manufacturer describes as an accurate replica of the original 1920's F5-style model. It is a solid wood, hand-carved and graduated mandolin with a spruce top, flame maple back and sides, and finished with a [...]
A great many bluegrass fans have embraced satellite radio. In addition to each having nearly 200 channels offering a wide variety of news, music and sports, both XM and Sirius have 24/7 bluegrass music channels produced in house. With the US Department of Justice's approval of the proposed merger between the two satellite radio giants [...]
