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The June issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine has a cover feature on Tony Rice. The in-depth piece by Scott Nygaard looks at Tony's career in music of more than 30 years, and also includes a side piece on "the guitars and gear of Tony Rice." This June issue is the current one, recently mailed to [...]
Here's a fun video clip which has made the rounds on the Internet a number of times. It features a seven year old Ricky Skaggs performing with Flatt & Scruggs on their television program. He sings Ruby and plays his mandolin on Earl Scruggs' normally instrumental version of the song, Reuben. This clip appears to [...]
Brance has posted a number of times recently about artists who have bluegrass music as a recurring theme in their work. Earlier this week we found another, William H. "Scoot" Dryden, Jr., whose large oil paintings are far more abstract than the watercolors of Bob Yonke, who Brance mentioned last week. Scoot's work is quite [...]
Banjo picker extraordinaire Alison Brown and her husband (and Compass Records co-founder) Garry West recently celebrated the birth of their son, Brendan Brown West. Brendan was born on April 10, and arrived at 8 lbs. 8 oz. His dad is also a fine musician, so young Brendan will surely get a fine start if he [...]
Bob Taylor, the man behind the immensely popular Taylor Guitars, is the subject of a new documentary-style DVD distributed by Mel Bay Publications. It's part of their new Instrumental Innovators series, which profiles instrument makers who have had a major impact on the industry. Dave Smith, Stuart Spector and Paul Reed Smith are also included [...]
McCoury Music has posted audio samples for all 12 tracks on the new Larry Sparks CD, The Last Suit You Wear - along with special, pre-release Internet pricing. The CD isn't set for an official release until May 1, but online orders are being shipped now, and offered for only $10 plus shipping. As they [...]
Great news for Blue Highway fans - their next CD project should be out later this year. They have resigned with Rounder Records and this will be their 4th Rounder CD, and 8th album release as a band. Blue Highway has seen their popularity in bluegrass grow steadily over more than ten years in the [...]
We got a note from Randy Graham, mandolinist and tenor singer with David Parmley and Continental Divide, about an event scheduled this weekend to celebrate the life and musical career of Don Parmley. Here's Randy's note: I want to take a moment to tell everyone about a special event coming to the Aspire Center in [...]
Last fall we shared the news that String Cheese Incident had announced plans to disband after the summer of 2007. Now comes word about the final tour dates, starting July 12-14 in New York and finishing August 10-12 at Red Rocks. The band has a news item on the front of their web site with [...]
Through the generosity of some private donors, Pete Wernick is pleased to announce the availability of several scholarships for his 2007 Bluegrass Jam Camps. These camps are open to students of any bluegrass instrument, and designed to help them learn to play together with others in a jam session environment. The scholarships cover tuition fees [...]
