Skip to content
Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby will be performing on stage together during the 6th Annual Americana Honors & Awards show at the Ryman Auditorium on November 1. The event is part of the Americana Music Association's annual conference, which runs from October 31 - November 3 this year. Several artists who we cover on Bluegrass [...]
Jayme Stone is a banjo player who has defied a great many of the expectations associated with the instrument. His music mixes the 3 finger style passed to him from the bluegrass tradition with a harmonic sense that encompasses traditional string music, classical references and jazz harmony. His newest instructional DVD, Banjo Improvisation: A Master [...]
I hope everyone will indulge us for a few moments of self congratulation. We've just passed our 2nd anniversary as Bluegrass Today, and managed to reach a number of significant milestones in recent weeks. In July, we recorded our 1,000,000th page view, and our 500,000th visitor. Brance and I would like to extend a special [...]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ran a story last week about Czech bluegrass band Druha Trava, who are touring in the US and Canada through the rest of September. The Gazette's Nate Guidry interviewed Robert Krestan, who founded the group in 1991 about how he came to become interested in bluegrass living in the Czech Republic. Krestan [...]
Rebel Records continues to make notable recordings from their back catalog available as download-only releases via iTunes. Two new titles have been added to their digital catalog this month. Blue Sparks is a 1983 release from Larry Sparks with Jim Heffernan on dobro, Gene Elders on fiddle, John Masters on banjo, Terry Barnes on mandolin [...]
Tom Adams, celebrated former banjo player with The Johnson Mountain Boys, Blue Highway and others, has announced his plans to set the banjo down, and perhaps focus on guitar instead. He has been suffering from focal dystonia for the past six years, a nervous system disorder which has made it increasingly difficult for him to [...]
Subscribers to Bluegrass Unlimited magazine may already have read the feature in the September issue on BluegrassRadio.org's Clyde Scott. The article sums up the history of Clyde's involvement in radio, and how he came to launch his 24/7 bluegrass streaming radio service online. Clyde tells us that he took the station for their first road [...]
Award-winning bluegrass power couple, Terry and Cindy Baucom, will both be interviewed over the next week on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Later today, Cindy will join WWB station manager Gracie Muldoon at 1:30 p.m. to talk about her own bluegrass radio show, Knee Deep In Bluegrass, which airs weekly on more than 50 stations throughout the US. Cindy [...]
Blue Plate Special on WDVX in Knoxville will offer a live set from New Found Road today (8/31) at noon. It will be a fine chance to catch them with their newest member, Joe Bohoor, on mandolin. New Found Road is led by singer and songwriter Tim Shelton on guitar with Randy Barnes on bass [...]
This week's Musicians Tip from BluegrassCountry.org comes from banjo man Bill Emerson. Bill earned his reputation as a solid picker with Jimmy Martin and The Country Gentlemen, and then served as a musician in the US Navy Band, Country Current where he played banjo and led the group. Bill shares his thoughts about stage presence [...]
