Author: John Lawless

David Parmley & Continental Divide are pleased to welcome Kyle Perkins, from Somerset, KY as their new bass player, replacing departing bass man Barry Berrier, now with Lonesome River Band. Kyle is 20 years old, and has been playing bluegrass

BMI has some coverage up on their web site featuring many of the BMI members who were given awards by IBMA last week. No news for folks who have been following our coverage here on Bluegrass Today, but they do

We just received this note from Casey Henry: The Nashville Metro Police department has recovered two stolen instruments. A banjo and a mandolin. If anyone wants to claim them they should contact Detective Mavity at 615-862-7611. The Nashville police must be somewhat

The John Cowan Band has just announced that their next CD will be released on Pinecastle Records. A spring 2006 release is anticipated for this 11 song project, speculatively titled New Tattoo. We will pass along more details as we can

We had a brief discussion on Sunday with IBMA Executive Director Dan Hays about attendance at this past week's events in Nashville. As always, Dan was careful not to be too specific since final numbers aren't all in, but early

I just got a note from Donald Nitchie about the next issue of Banjo Newsletter. In the November issue of the Banjo Newsletter we feature the new Smithsonian/Folkways release In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes by Hobart Smith,

Here, with our apologies for tardiness, is another gallery of photos that Dan Loftin took at the IBMA Awards Show last Thursday evening.

The recent IBMA Awards have been covered in the mainstream press here in the US, and we have posted links to a few stories that we found. This morning, we found one on the BBC News web site, originally posted

Well, it's Sunday morning, and Brance and I will be headed back home sometime today. We still have a great many photos to pore through, and get the best of them up on the site, but we have to tear

We found a few more articles in the online versions of print papers covering the IBMA events this past week. The Nashville City Paper had a story earlier in the week about the IBMA Business Conference, and a new one