24 new episodes were announced today for the 8th season of the live bluegrass and acoustic music program, Song Of The Mountains, debuting June 15 on almost 200 public television affiliates across the US. The show works in collaboration with UNC-TV in
For the past 7 years, the venerable Grand Masters Fiddler Championship has been held in Nashville during the IBMA World of Bluegrass week in late September. It had been hosted at the Opryland theme park from 1972 until it was left
A new organization has been chartered in Australia to promote bluegrass and old time music on the mainland and in New Zealand. This all grew out of a meeting last month in Harrietville, VIC, the site of a popular bluegrass festival
Kindred Records has released a pair of tracks to radio from JD Messer and Sanctified, a bluegrass Gospel group from Kentucky and West Virginia. The two are Messer originals, Lunch Box Letter and Peter Stepped Out, available to programmers now from
Speaking of bluegrass in the movies... The History of Future Folk is set to premiere in New York at the end of the month. It's a science fiction comedy about a pair of aliens who come to Earth to destroy humanity,
Michael Davis, founder of successful Southern Gospel artist representatives, The Dominion Agency, has launched a bluegrass division. Blue Ridge Artist Agency will be based within Dominion's Waynesville, NC offices, with a number of bluegrass acts on board. Davis and his team of
"They're gonna put me in the movies..." So sang Buck Owens (and Ringo Starr) in the mid 1960s in Act Naturally, a hit song that told the story of a country boy set for stardom in the movie biz. In 2014,
Newtown has recently brought on Moore Bass Entertainment to help represent them for live appearances. The company is managed by Jason Moore, bass player with Mountain Heart, hence the name. Newtown banjo picker Jr. Williams says that they are eager to take
Silver Dollar City's Bluegrass & BBQ festival has added a new wrinkle for 2013. The annual mega-fest which runs continuously from May 9-27 in Branson, MO, will feature bluegrass lake cruises on their paddlewheel showboat, Branson Belle, May 24-26. Monroe Crossing will
Much of Nashville, and all of country music, was absorbed yesterday with the memorial service for George Jones held at the Grand Ole Opry house. Friends and loyal fans turned out to remember this musical giant, who passed away on
