Bluegrass At Large

Jim McGuire's exhibition, Nashville Portraits:Photographs by Jim McGuire, is opening at the Morris Museum in Augusta, GA, March 6 and will be on display through April 26. It is a fabulous exhbition of sixty balck and white portraits of country

Here is another report on the Marathon jams held on January 31 to raise money for Fisher House, an organization that provides housing for families of wounded American servicemen and women receiving treatment at military hospitals. This contribution comes from

I was aware that music is used in therapy to relieve stress and tension, but apparently the Taiwanese have been successfully incorporating violin lessons into their drug rehab program recently. Taiwan News has the story. The Taichung Drug Abuse Treatment Center has

If you've ever wondered what you should be practicing, Juergen Reiter (a composer, bassist, producer from Germany), offers some advice over at the Music Think Tank. His advice? Limit what you practice. He says the advice young musicians are given to practice

This report on the European Bluegrass Summit held recently in Germany 2/7-8), is a contribution from Richard Hawkins, IBMA International Committee chair and proprietor of The Bluegrass Ireland Blog. As a direct result of the success of IBMA's International Summit at

Well, first off let me say that I don't listen to much bluegrass music. It is all pretty new to me. I noticed on here that some folks are not happy with the comments made on stage by Jere Cherryholmes.

Banjo fanatics have long been recognized as one part tinkerer and one part alchemist. They obsess over minor variations in the exact mix of metals in banjo components, and fret about differences of a few thousandths of an inch in

When the complete list of nominees for the 2009 Academy Of Country Music Awards were announced yesterday (2/11), a number of bluegrass pickers showed up on the list. No... not that list (the one with all the Nashville glitterati in their

We told you a few weeks ago about the Marathon Jam scheduled for January 31 to benefit Fisher House, an organization that provides housing for families of wounded American servicemen and women receiving treatment at military hospitals. The jam was scheduled

Ohio's largest Bluegrass Jam Session is held Friday nights at Lafayette UMC in Medina Ohio www.lafayetteumc.net   Watch our website for emergency weather closings. Blue Grass  is $2 donation at the door.  Hillbilly Slawdogs, burgers, sloppy jos and bean soup with cornbread is