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The Enchantment, the upcoming banjo/piano duet recording from Chick Corea and B?©la Fleck, which Brance briefly described earlier this month, is due for release May 22 on Concord Records. The making of this highly-anticipated CD is the focus of a short (6 minute) film which can be viewed now on the Chick Corea site. The [...]
Wallace Lewis, one of the founders of bluegrass Gospel's most enduring stage show, The Lewis Family, passed away yesterday afternoon (5/16). He was 78 years old. He performed with brother Talmadge and Esley as The Lewis Brothers in the 1940s, occasionally including their youngest brother, "Little Roy," still a young boy, on banjo. Their repertoire [...]
BluegrasCountry.org is running an interview segment this next week with Russell Moore and Steve Dilling of IIIrd Tyme Out. Bob Webster, one of the hosts of BluegrassCountry's Bluegrass Overnight show, talks with Russell and Steve about how the band got started, and how much they enjoy getting to meet and greet with their many loyal [...]
Brad Davis is featured in the second half of a recent broadcast of Michael Jonathan's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. He was supported on the show by Flatpicking Guitar Magazine editor/publisher Dan Miller on bass, and brother, champion-picker Greg Davis on banjo. They perform a number of songs from his most recent CD, This World [...]
We just heard from Greg Cahill, founder and fearless leader of Special Consensus. Greg tells us that Ashby Frank has been hired as mandolinist and vocalist with the band, taking the spot to be vacated when Ron Spears departs to join Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Ashby had been working with Alecia Nugent, and had previously [...]
Next Friday, May 25, voting members of the International Bluegrass Music Association can expect to start seeing their first round ballots for the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Awards. The winners are determined in three ballots over the course of the summer, with the awards being announced at the IBMA Awards show on October 4 at [...]
This past Sunday (5/13), The Evening Sun of Gettysburg, PA ran a detailed profile of the regular Friday night jam at The Arrow Horse in Gettysburg. The weekly jam is hosted by Hank Janney, Arrow Horse owner, and bluegrass radio DJ for WGTY. He opened the store to offer antiques and collectibles, but has seen [...]
Be sure to take a look at The B, our reader-submitted news page here on Bluegrass Today. There are a number of new posts that are worthy of your attention. In fact, you might consider taking a look there each time you pay us a visit. Any registered user of Bluegrass Today can submit news [...]
Steve Kaufman's Acoustic Kamps have been in operation for 12 years now, teaching first only guitarists, but now also banjo and mandolin players in week long workshops in Maryville, TN. The "kamps" have grown from year to year, and have thrice been selected for the Best Workshops, Seminars and Camps award from the readers of [...]
Jeff Weaver of The Rarely Herd will surely be among the millions of TV viewers glued to their sets tomorrow night when American Idol is broadcast on Fox. Arizona, a song he wrote and which The Herd recorded in 1992 on their Midnight Loneliness project, may be included during the Homecoming segment of the May [...]
