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We got a note from Candi Sawyer at The Bluegrass Guide, asking for recipe submissions from bluegrass bands, fans, promoters and anyone else associated with the music. She said that she has wanted to include a Bluegrass Cookbook in their annual festival listings for some time, and even started several years ago, only to be [...]
This coming Tuesday (10/24), you can join 5 string banjo innovator and entrepreneur Bill Keith as he is interviewed on WorldWideBluegrass.com by Becky Taylor. Her show, Out-Of-The-Box, is cybercast live over the internet from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. (EDT), and it isn't clear from the WWB site whether Bill will be online with Becky [...]
Last month, we posted about Sam Bush appearing on The Tonight Show (with Emmy Lou Harris) in support of his then newly-released CD, Laps In Seven. I just noticed that someone has made a video of Sam's Tonight Show performance available on YouTube, for anyone who didn't catch the show live.
This weekend The Grand Ole Opry is celebrating their 81st Birthday, and they have some great bluegrass on both the Friday and Saturday night shows. Later tonight, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with special guest Earl Scruggs will perform twice on the WSM radio show. They'll be on in the 8:30-9:00 and 10:30-11:00 p.m. slots [...]
Flatpicker Mo Canada has a new CD, released appropriately enough on Flatpicking Guitar Magazine's label. Entitled Grassoline, it features 12 instrumentals that highlight Canada's celebrated guitar playing, with assistance from some of the most skilled pickers in bluegrass. Tony Rice, Randy Kohrs, Phil Leadbetter and Scott Vestal contribute, along with Darrell Webb, Ed Canada, Raymond [...]
We just got word from the folks at WAMU/BluegrassCountry.org that one of their wayward show hosts has returned to the roost. Bill Foster, who was a host on the popular Bluegrass Overnight show broadcast in the DC area from 1985 to 1998, is back on staff. He will once again be a host on Bluegrass [...]
Noted bluegrass mandolinist Mike Compton has two new videos up on YouTube. Both are simple productions, and feature Mike playing through a fiddle tune. The first has Mike playing a somewhat obscure Bill Monroe tune, Frog On A Lilly Pad. It is one that Monroe wrote later in life, and though it was played a [...]
Well...almost. The new release from bluegrass legend Curly Seckler is now available, but not in the ways with which you may be accustomed. The folks at Copper Creek Records have decided to release this project almost exclusively for download. A limited pressing of manufactured CDs were made, for distribution to radio and for Curly to [...]
Gibson's bluegrass division introduced three new limited edition models recently - one each in their banjo, dobro and mandolin lines. The new banjo is a vintage RB-4 re-issue. Like the style 4 banjos made prior to WWII, this re-issue will be made with a walnut neck and resonator, and chrome (rather than nickel) plated hardware. [...]
IBMA and the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association will jointly host a Bluegrass In The Schools workshop in Minneapolis, MN early in November. It will be held in conjunction with the Harvest Jamboree festival (11/3-4), and is designed to offer bands and individual bluegrass artists help in developing educational programs to present in schools. [...]
