Thanks to Ted Lehmann for sharing this video he shot during The Gibson Brothers' annual Christmas show. Billed as A Gibson Family North Country Christmas, Eric and Leigh host the show each year at their old high school, Northern Adirondack Central School,
The newly reformed and reinvigorated Mountain Heart has been in the studio this past few months, putting together their first recorded project from the new lineup. Josh Shilling and Aaron Ramsey remain from the previous active version of the boundary-pushing grassers, as
There's not much you can get for $0.99 these days. If you are a banjo player, you'd be lucky to get a single banjo string for a buck, much less a new pick, or some new licks to learn. But wait...
The video we posted earlier this week of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver's arrangement of O Holy Night has been such a hit among their fans, that they have released the audio as a single through iTunes. It was recorded during the
Mountain Faith has joined the ranks of bluegrass artists releasing Christmas music this year. They've created a holiday video, in conjunction with Western Carolina University, of Carol Of The Bells, one of the more challenging pieces of Yuletide music to
Though it may not be obvious to bluegrass consumers, those who work in the business from artists, writers, radio professionals, and record label staff, know what a major player Airplay Direct has become in the bluegrass world. Formed in 2005 by Robert
The venerable Banjo NewsLetter has dedicated its December issue to the career and music of the great J.D. Crowe. Surely among the finest bluegrass banjo players ever to don picks, BNL uses the recent announcement of Crowe's retirement to remember the many decades
Steep Canyon Rangers have released a live video of Blue Velvet Rain from their current Radio album, performed with The Brevard Sinfonia. The song is a somber ballad written by Charles R. Humphrey III and Phil Barker, orchestrated for the video by Jonathan Sacks,
A documentary film about the spread of bluegrass music in the Czech Republic, Banjo Romantika, is set to air in December on many PBS television stations around the US. It will be broadcast starting tomorrow night (12/10) in North Carolina, and showing in West Virginia, Kentucky,
In a surprise to no one who has been following the world of dobro playing of late, Blue Highway has announced that Gaven Largent has been chosen to join the band on the heels of original member Rob Ickes' departure. Gaven
