Author: John Lawless

The folks at Skipping Discs, who brought us Saturday Night Hay Fever: Bluegrass Artists Perform Disco Hits, is now planning a second release of bluegrass covers, this time for The Grass Roots, who some of us recall as a pop

About six weeks ago, we posted about a new program being offered by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. The program is the museum's Free Saturdays, where people interested in learning bluegrass music can obtain both free instruction

This Saturday's Grand Ole Opry broadcast features a number of performers that would be of interest to bluegrass fans. The Whites, Mike Snider, Jesse McReynolds and The Alison Brown Band are all set to be be part of the 11/12

Rhonda Vincent and her fan club are hosting an email auction for an autographed Samick Mandolin to benefit Holiday Adopt-A-Child and Toys For Tots. The mandolin has been signed by a number of well-known mandolinists: Sam Bush, Doyle Lawson, Ronnie

The Nashville Chapter of the Recording Academy held a gala awards presentation on Monday, November 7, to honor four creative artists within the Nashville area. The Academy, who sponsors the annual Grammy Awards, honored Alison Krauss, Earl Scruggs, Tim McGraw

Dollywood Entertainment Park will be conducting auditions for performers in five cities during January of 2006. They are looking for singers, actors, specialty performers, instrumentalists, stage managers and technicians for the April 1 - December 30 season. Auditions will be

Rounder Records has a new bluegrass compilation CD out today featuring cuts from previous Rounder releases, including selections from Alison Krauss & Union Station, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Blue Highway, Tony Rice, JD Crowe & The New South

Ben Winship is the current mandolinist with Kane's River and the owner/operator of The Henhouse, a recording studio in Victor, Idaho. Brian Wicklund is a celebrated fiddler, mandolinist and fiddle instructor in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota. Together, they

Columbia Records has announced January 31, 2006 as the release date for The Hidden Land, the ninth CD from B???la Fleck & The Flecktones. Though the Flecktones have released two CDs on Columbia since their Grammy winning Outbound in 2000,

The Del McCoury Band will be doing a couple of record store shows this week in support of concerts in Philadelphia and New York City. On Tuesday, November 8, they will be at Tower Philly in Philadelphia at 1:oo p.m. (916-373-2415)