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"Awww... thank you T. Tommy." How do you type that out of the corner of your mouth so it sounds like Lester Flatt? I finally had a chance recently to watch the new Flatt & Scruggs DVDs released by the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Shanachie Entertainment. Like the two previous DVDs [...]
November 3 will see four new exhibits unveiled at the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. Three will focus on the pioneering work of members of the IBMA's Hall of Honor: Pete Kuykendall - founder of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine Lance Leroy - booking agent for Lester Flatt, Jimmy Martin and The Bluegrass Cardinals Bill [...]
Rebel Records has announced that their first new release for 2008 will be a duo project from Jimmy Gaudreau and Moondi Klein. Bluegrass fans remember Gaudreau from his years with The Country Gentlemen, The Tony Rice Unit and his current gig with John Starling & Carolina Star. Klein will be familiar as a former member [...]
Spring 2008 will find a bevy of top American bluegrass musicians heading to Wales to serve as instructors at the Transatlantic Bluegrass School. The school will be held starting on May 7 in the scenic coastal village of Newport, Pembrokeshire and are designed for students who have passed the most beginning stages of learning to [...]
We posted last month about pioneering bluegrass guitarist George Shuffler being recognized by the North Carolina Arts Council for his lifetime of contributing to the world of traditional and bluegrass music. George worked with The Stanley Brothers for many years, and his crosspicking style is imitated to this day by successive generations of bluegrass guitar [...]
This evening (10/23) at 6:00 p.m., you can tune into Uncle Billy Dunbar's show on WorldWideBluegrass.com and hear John Abrams talk with Billy about his work as one half of The Abrams Brothers. Along with his younger brother James, these Canadian teenagers have been performing at bluegrass shows for several years, and have two CDs [...]
Mixing bluegrass and blues influences in their music - rhythm'n'bluegrass, as they like to call it - is the signtaure sound of The Steeldrivers, whose debut CD is due on Rounder early in 2008. Their self-titled project features all-original music written within the band, all of them veterans of the music business who now find [...]
There was an overseas invasion on Michael Jonathon's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour on October 1. Both Boys of the Lough from Ireland and Scotland, and Italy's Red Wine were featured on a recent edition of the program, and the video is now available online. Boys of the Lough may be the most widely recognized [...]
It's been a while since we made mention of The B, our reader-submitted news page here on Bluegrass Today. The B features content written by our users, and we hope you will take a look and see what it is all about. In fact, you might consider taking a look there each time you pay [...]
Would you like to see more bluegrass and acoustic videos played on CMT? Here's a chance to vote for Randy Kohrs and his new video for Who's Goin' With Me, a track from his current Rural Rhythm release, Old Photograph. Randy's video is in the running for CMT's Pure 12-Pack Countdown on their new 24/7 [...]
