Bluegrass At Large

Curly Seckler will be honored at the 13th Annual Leon Kiser Memorial Tribute Show to take place at the Paramount Centre for the Arts in Bristol, Tennessee, on February 28. Seckler will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, Musician Category, for

Yesterday's (2 /9) Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album went to Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder for Honoring The Fathers of Bluegrass: Tribute to 1946 and 1947. Congratulations to Ricky and the boys! Alison Krauss and Robert Plant won 5 Grammies for

Volume Five Bluegrass Band will be showcasing at SPBGMA on Saturday at 7:00PM. We hope to see you there. We should have some advance copies of our new CD, and are very excited to

Nashville radio station WKDF is reporting that former Led Zeppelin vocalist and current Alison Krauss duet partner Robert Plant has rented a home in Nashville and is working on a follow-up with Krauss to their hugely successful Raising Sand CD. The

Special Consensus mandolinist Ashby Frank has agreed to send us updates and photos from their current tour of Britain and Ireland. Ashby is unsure how much web access he will have during the tour, but promises to send his musings

For us, The Right Kind of Dirty has a few meanings.  We focus on a traditional old time style, but we also try to add elements that we feel help us express our musical feelings in a more thorough way. 

The Country Music Association has announced its nominees for induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Roy Clark has been named as one of those inductees. Clark will be inducted into the category of Career Achieved National Prominence

  It's been a good week here at Hadley Music Group. You see, in early January we released Donna Ulisse's second bluegrass album, "Walk This Mountain Down". It had been completed since late summer of 2008 so we had been living with

Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone has received a 2009 Juno nomination in the World Music Album of the Year category from the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) for his Africa To Appalachia CD, recorded with African musician Mansa

   I did look @ the video by Billy Idol doing white wedding, but the original instrumentation was obviously muted & had an artifical banjo track dubbing it.  I used to listen to Billy Idol back in the 1980s.