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Earlier this week, our eagle-eyed British correspondent, Richard Thompson, wrote a piece about the erroneous performance credits in the recent Folkways CD reissue of the Country Gentlemen's live album from 1973, Going Back To The Blue Ridge Mountains. Richard noted that the CD notes show indicate that the recording was from the "classic Country Gentlemen," [...]
The AT&T blueroom is offering a live video stream from the Bonnaroo festival this weekend (6/15/17) online. You can see the performance schedule they will carry on the Bonnaroo site. This isn't a bluegrass event by any stretch, but a number of acts are slated to appear who may be of interest to our readers. [...]
Takeharu Kunimoto is a popular personality in Japan, where he performs on the shamisen in the traditional rokyoku style, and works as an actor, storyteller and narrator for children's movies. He is also an accomplished bluegrass musician, both on the mandolin and on the shamisen. The shamisen is a somewhat banjo-like instrument, native to Japanese [...]
Grasstowne will be featured on today's (6/15) edition of The Blue Plate Special on WDVX FM. The show airs at noon, eastern time, and runs for an hour. They will be performing songs from their debut CD, The Road Headin' Home, due for release on Pinecastle Records August 7. It has recently shipped to radio, [...]
The Grascals will be part of a Friday broadcast on GAC TV, captured live at the CMA Music Fest in Nashville. The band's web site says that the show is on at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. on June 15, but the GAC site shows 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. It may repeat the same show [...]
What better way for a bluegrass fan to celebrate Father's Day than with the music of the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe? That's exactly what the folks at Sirius Satellite radio's bluegrass channel (65) think. They will feature wall-to-wall Monroe music from Saturday (6/16) at 9:00 a.m. until Sunday (6/17) at 9:00 p.m. Both his [...]
The newest set of live performance and interview videos added at CMT.com's Studio 330 Sessions features Chris Thile. He performs alone, minus his crack band, The Tensions Mountain Boys. The songs included are all from his latest release, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground: Stay Away, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, Wayside [...]
The Infamous Stringdusters will soon start offering live show audio downloads from their MySpace page, and are asking fans to help them decide which tracks to include. You can post a comment on their MySpace blog to suggest a song, which bass man Travis Book says will be showing up any day now. Travis says [...]
The European Bluegrass Music Association has released some numbers on their recent European World Of Bluegrass events, which took place May 17-19 in Voorthuizen, the Netherlands. In this, their tenth annual festival, ticket sales were up by 20% over 2006, with similar impressive gate increases at other European bluegrass festivals during the month of May. [...]
We just received a note from Fred Bartenstein, sharing the sad news about the loss of a true pioneer of bluegrass music in Japan. Tatsuo "Harry" Arita is said to have brought the first Japanese bluegrass record to the United States in 1960, and Fred tells us that Harry was a loyal and regular contributor [...]
