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Just as we did last year, Bluegrass Today will offer live-blog coverage of the International Bluegrass Music Awards next Thursday (9/29) from The Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville. If you aren't able to attend, or listen to the show live on XM, you can spend the evening here and find out who wins each [...]
The folks at Flatpicking Guitar Magazine have posted a nice photo gallery from the 35th Annual National Flatpicking Guitar Championship, recently concluded in Winfield, KS. They have three pages of photos, taken during the competition itself, and from the warm-up area. They also have a brief description of the contest, and the winners in the [...]
Studio Special, XM Satellite Radio's weekly program of live performance and interviews with bluegrass artists, has a mix of their most popular shows set to run during IBMA week. Instead of one new show, airing multiple times over the course of a week, the shows starting tomorrow (9/22) will feature a different encore program each [...]
We posted last month about our plans to involve a number of intern bloggers on Bluegrass Today during IBMA week in Nashville. We have a few folks lined up, who will help us provide a variety of vantage points and impressions of the many World Of Bluegrass activities, but can bring a few more into [...]
Banjo player Noam Pikelny is a mighty busy guy this fall. It seems like any time you investigate what is happening in the world of progressive bluegrass and acoustic music, his name pops up. Until recently, Noam was a member of The John Cowan Band, a position he held for a little over two years, [...]
We will have an Exhibit Hall booth set up again at IBMA this year, and will be recording interviews which will be used for future episodes of The GrassCast. If you handle publicity for a bluegrass artist or personality that would be of interest to our weekly podcast audience, please contact us, either in advance, [...]
The European Bluegrass Music Association has just posted details and information for the 2007 European World Of Bluegrass Festival and Trade Show. It is scheduled for May 17-19 in Voorthuizen, NL. Information in PDF form is available for bands interested in showcasing, potential sponsors and exhibitors, and for anyone who simply has an interest in [...]
W just saw a note on the IIIrd Tyme Out web site that fiddler Justen Haynes and his wife Melanie celebrated the birth of their daughter, Natalie Jean Haynes, on September 11, 2006. Congratulations to the happy new parents!
We just heard from Fred Bartenstein about a special Osborne Brothers radio special he has been working on for nearly two years. It was produced by WNKU (Northern KY University) and Bgrass Inc., a nonprofit which Bartenstein chairs, dedicated to preserving and celebrating the bluegrass music heritage of southern Ohio. The two hour program, hosted [...]
We've written a good bit recently about Chris Thile, and his return, if not necessarily to bluegrass, at least to recording and performing within the structure of a bluegrass ensemble. It seems somehow appropriate in this setting to highlight two new recordings from David Grisman, an artist with some interesting parallels to the young Mr. [...]
