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Missy Raines has announced that she will leave her position as bass player with The Claire Lynch Band, her musical home for the past 12 years, to focus full-time on her own group, Missy Raines & The New Hip. The band features Missy on bass with the assistance of Michael Wichter on resonator guitar, Megan [...]
The Transatlantic Bluegrass School, scheduled for May 7-11, 2008 in the Welsh town of Pembrokeshire, has announced the formation of a scholarship program for young students, aged 16-25, based on financial need. The scholarship awards will cover the full tuition costs, and are available for banjo, guitar, fiddle, mandolin or vocal. Applicants must submit essays [...]
The music video for Sadie's Got Her New Dress On, from the latest Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver CD, More Behind The Picture Than The Wall, debuts today at CMT.com. It's a production video, complete with dancers, Sadie and several new dresses, Doyle and the boys pickin' at a dance - and even a fight scene! [...]
This weekend's two Grand Ole Opry broadcasts have much to recommend them to bluegrass fans. Tonight's show (12/28) will feature performances by The Grascals, Bradley Walker and Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press. The show is broadcast on WSM AM-650 from 9:00-11:00 p.m. (EST). On Saturday (12/29), you'll have a chance to hear the [...]
Starting this Sunday (12/30), we will launch a new semi-regular feature on Bluegrass Today. Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, will offer comments on new Gospel music releases in a series of posts he calls Sunday Morning Revelation. The first will examine Kneel And Pray from Mickey Harris, Rhonda Vincent's bass man in The Rage, [...]
There are six short videos up on Gibson's web site that feature banjo legend Earl Scruggs discussing his life and career in bluegrass and acoustic music. It seems that they were all recorded earlier this year. Each of the links below go to one of the individual video clips, each focusing on a specific aspect [...]
Here's a bit of lighthearted bluegrass history for your post-Christmas climbdown... The anecdote comes from multi-instrumentalist and singer Orrin Starr. It involves a phone conversation between fiddler Jim Moss and James Monroe. Jim is a prominent west coast fiddler, and he spoke with James (son of Bill Monroe) while Bill was in the office many [...]
Mel Bay Publications has a new book/CD set sure to be of interest to serious mandolinists. The Complete Mandolinist is written by Marilynn Mair, a professor of music at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and an internationally recognized artist and instructor of the mandolin, specializing in classical chamber music. She has also been active [...]
Our friend Ted Lehmann has just celebrated his 1st anniversary as a blogger, posting at Ted Lehmann's Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms. To celebrate, he has posted several portfolios of the photos he has taken at festivals and concerts over the past year. He has images of B?©la Fleck, Larry Sparks, Lynn Morris and a great [...]
We've posted repeatedly about Punch Brothers, the most recent permutation of Chris Thile's supremely talented band of acoustic superpickers. Their debut release on Nonesuch Records is due on 2/28/08 built around Thile's composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind - a magnum opus by the standards of the acoustic string world from which he sprang. The [...]
