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We just got word that Chris Thile is shooting a music video today in New York in support of the new How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD. It's for the song, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground, and will feature all the members of his How To Grow A Band unit. The [...]
There are two detailed festival reports recently posted in The B. The first comes from a user who goes by Lynyrd Banjovy, describing the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration in Kentucky. The other is from Ted Lehmann, and it's about the Farmpark Bluegrass Festival in Denton, NC. Find both posts in The B, where any of [...]
The folks at Bluegrass Guide will host the first Songwriter Chat session of their new season this evening (10/17). It will be with Eric and Leigh Gibson, and take place at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). Rick Lang of Haley Anna Music will host the session. All are welcome, and there is no cost to join the [...]
The official web site for The Recording Academy, formerly The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, who distributes the annual Grammy Awards, has a nice piece up on the 40th Anniversary issue of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine. It was written by Dave Helland, and includes a brief overview of the magazine, and how it came [...]
Country music superstars Alabama have a new CD set for release on October 24, their first in more than five years. It will be a Gospel project, entitled Songs Of Inspiration, and will contain both familiar Gospel favoriates like Old Rugged Cross, Rock Of Ages and Amazing Grace, along with two new songs by Randy [...]
The recipients of this year's Charlie Derrington Memorial Scholarship to attend the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend have been announced. Four young musicians (aged 13-24) were selected, each of whom will attend the three day instructional weekend with their full tuition, accommodations and some travel costs paid by the scholarship. The 2006 recipients are: Asa Gravely, guitar [...]
We had mentioned Rhonda Vincent's new Christmas recording, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, when it was announced during the summer. The CD is set to be released tomorrow (10/17), and Rounder has audio samples from all 12 tracks up on their web site. Rhonda talked about this new project during her recent GrassCast interview, which [...]
We posted back in August about Dale Ann Bradley's newest release, Catch Tomorrow, when we first received a promo copy. The hope we expressed at the time was that now, at long last, this extremely talented vocalist and expressive song stylist may finally have all the pieces in place to make a lasting mark on [...]
Just a quick update to our mention earlier this week about the birth of Hogan Wayne Benson, whose parents Wayne and Kristin Benson are well known to bluegrass fans. There is a hospital photo of young master Benson up on Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time's web site.
One of the events we discussed here on Bluegrass Today during IBMA week in Nashville last month was Jerry Douglas' Keynote Address to the organization on September 25. As I mentioned in that post: His address seemed to focus on three basic themes: bluegrass music is in good shape, it is being noticed by the [...]
