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Your humble blogger will be a guest this coming Friday morning (11/30) on WFDU-FM, broadcast on 89.1 FM in the New York City metro market. I'll join hosts Carol Beaugard and Steve Lutke at 10:15 a.m. (EST) to talk about Bluegrass Today and my other various bluegrass activities. Steve is a fellow banjo picker, so [...]
The Dixie Bee-Liners have come a long way to this point, where they are anticipating their debut, full-length CD release, Ripe, on Pinecastle Records. Band principals Brandi Hart, a Lexington, KY native, joined Buddy Woodward in his native New York city where the group got its start. Brandi worked in marketing and design while Buddy [...]
Tonight's (11/27)edition of the Tuesday Opry has both Rhonda Vincent & The Rage and Cherryholmes scheduled to perform. This will be Rhonda's last show for 2007, as she and the band are taking December off to recuperate from a very busy year. The show runs from 8:00-10:00 p.m. (EST), and airs in the Nashville market [...]
A Gibson F-5L mandolin has been donated by the manufacturer to benefit the Butch Baldassari Medical Fund, and is being offered for sale via Gruhn Guitars in Nashville. All proceeds from the sale will go to Butch's Medical Fund. This is a "Fern" style mandolin, described on Gruhn's site as follows: This instrument (sn 70920020) [...]
The first single from the new Robert Plant and Alison Krauss CD, Raising Sand, is for the song, Gone, Gone, Gone. The world premier of the music video for the single will be on November 29 on CMT's Top 20 Countdown. The show's format is the familiar countdown to number one, with choices for favorite [...]
Here's another bluegrass anniversary worth noting. It was almost exactly one year ago that we told you about a new band forming with prominent members drawn from several popular touring acts. The announcement came on December 1, 2006 of the imminent debut of Grasstowne, with Alan Bibey from BlueRidge, Steve Gulley from Mountain Heart and [...]
Congratulations to our friends at ukbluegrass.com! They have just completed their first year online promoting British Bluegrass, and are celebrating with a giveaway for their UK readers. Prizes are drawn from recent releases from a number of prominent bluegrass Brits (Howard Burton, Papa Truck, Daily Planet and Thunderbridge Bluegrass Boys) plus the limited edition edition [...]
As we are now within the officially-recognized holiday season, one expects to find notices about Christmas concerts featuring bluegrass and acoustic music. It was something of a surprise, though a most pleasant one, to see news of a show scheduled next Tuesday (12/4) on the Millenium Stage of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts [...]
We heard this weekend from Larry Wines, who has hosted Tied To The Tracks on KCSN in Los Angeles, CA for several years. The show features a mixture of live acoustic performance and recorded music, which they describe as: "blues-to-bluegrass, Cajun-to-cowboy, Celtic-to-Quebecois, new-old-trad-alt-post folk, and the best of the singer-songwriter acoustic Renaissance." Larry is taking [...]
A vintage Yamaha flat top guitar once owned by Charlie Waller is being offered on eBay to raise money for needy families this holiday season. Its current owner, Christopher Ryan Jones of Bluegrass Mafia, has donated the guitar to benefit Operation Christmas Child. Jones has owned this guitar since Charlie gave it to him in [...]
