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Here's a fun site with images of vintage music show posters. It's run by Mitch Diamond, who calls himself The Kardboard Kid. Mitch has been collecting these posters and hand bills since 1970, and has amassed a substantial number of these classics of advertising art. He is also something of a celebrity in the world [...]
Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced that tickets for dates on their summer tour will go on sale March 23, with some pre-sale opportunities in selected markets. The tour is being billed as A Hundred Miles or More Tour - An Evening with Alison Krauss and Union Station Featuring Jerry Douglas. As the title [...]
The live set from The Infamous Stringdusters is now up at the AT&T blue room. They pick and sing in the studio (over a single microphone) and discuss the new CD and their musical influences in six video segments. Two songs from their debut CD, Fork In The Road, are performed, including the title track, [...]
Tonight (March 20) will find bluegrass singer/songwriter Bob Amos as the guest on The Bluegrass Guide's monthly Songwriter Chat. Bob is a founding member of Colorado's Front Range, and has a new CD with his Bob Amos Band, Reels Of Life, recently released. This will be an interactive online conversation, where songwriters are encouraged to [...]
The topic of the newly reconstituted royalty rates for cybercasting - Internet radio - has been covered here on Bluegrass Today a good bit, and generated some discussion in the reader comments to one of these posts as well. For those with an interest in following this story, and what these new rates could mean [...]
H. Russell Farmer (Russ), had spent the last 30 years producing and directing programming for Kentucky Educational Television (KET), one of the largest public/educational TV networks in the country. Numerous broadcasting awards have come his way, and bluegrass fans are in his debt for producing Jubilee, a KET series which filmed live festival performances in [...]
McCoury Music has four tracks from the upcoming Larry Sparks CD, The Last Suit You Wear, available for online listening on their MySpace page. The CD is due for release shortly on the McCoury label, produced by Don Rigsby and Larry Sparks. The tracks available online are The Last Suit You Wear, For Your Love, [...]
Just a reminder that The Infamous Stringdusters will be performing live on WDVX today (3/19) at noon, eastern time. The show, Blue Plate, is broadcast from Knoxville, TN at 89.9 FM, but is also offered online via streaming audio. It is an hour long program. They will surely be showcasing material from their Sugar Hill [...]
Brance told us in early February that mandolinist Davide Harvey would be leaving his position with The Claire Lynch Band. Claire has just posted an open letter which David wrote to fans and friends of the band, to share the reasons why he had reluctantly come to the conclusion that he had to make this [...]
With all the talk here on Bluegrass Today of late about Internet radio, here's a new wrinkle on an old staple - a phone-in talk show about banjos, cybercast online. David Pericone has launched a new site - and a new show - called BanjoTalk. Each Sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. (eastern), he will host [...]
