Author: John Lawless

Pacific Ocean Bluegrass is the brainchild of Scott Gates, a 14 year old mandolin player from California's High Desert region. He assembled a band composed entirely of other California teens, and they take their bluegrass seriously. They also take exposing

The bluegrass radio options for the weekend are richer yet than what we already posted this morning. In addition to Cherryholmes on Sirius, Marty Raybon on XM, and Dale Ann Bradley on The Opry, Three Ring Circle is set to

Here's still more bluegrass radio news for the long Labor Day weekend. Sirius Satellite Radio will broadcast a two hour special this weekend, featuring reigning IBMA Entertainer Of The Year, Cherryholmes. The show is a live performance of the band

We've posted a number of times recently about Dale Ann Bradley, her new CD Catch Tomorrow, and the recent changes in her touring band. In those posts, we expressed hope that her new association with Compass Records would help her

This week's edition of Studio Special, a regular feature on Bluegrass Junction, XM Satellite Radio's full-time bluegrass channel, will include interviews and live (in-studio) performances from Marty Raybon. He and Bluegrass Junction host Kyle Cantrell will talk about Marty's new CD,

Just as we did last year, Bluegrass Today is hosting an online poll that mirrors the final IBMA Awards ballot. Visitors to our site can cast their vote for any of the nominees, and see how their choices stack up

Copper Creek Records has a new compilation project, designed to showcase a wide assortment of artists and music which have been featured on Copper Creek releases over the past 28 years. Entitled Blockbuster Bluegrass, it includes two CDs with 25

Our GrassCast interview with Rhonda Vincent earlier this week included some discussion of her upcoming Christmas CD, due in mid-October on Rounder. Some details about the project, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, are now up on the Rounder web site. No

As we did last year, we will be publishing the full schedule for IBMA's World Of Bluegrass and Fan Fest in a searchable, printable format here on Bluegrass Today. This will allow attendees to pre-plan both their daytime and after-hours

We posted earlier this month with news that Vince Gill's upcoming tour would be including some bluegrass in the show. CMT.com has a news feature posted yesterday which expands on this story a bit. We had mentioned in that earlier post