• Poll: Lord of the Fiddle-Face

    Halloween seems an appropriate day to release out gallery of Fiddle Faces. Some of these were sent in from readers. A couple of them are my own entries from the original post. Take a look at all the Fiddle Faces and

  • Leadership Bluegrass 2009

    IBMA is now soliciting applications for Leadership Bluegrass 2009, their 3-day networking and mentoring event held in Nashville each spring. The 2009 class is scheduled for March 10-12 and applications must be received by November 15. We have never attended, but have

  • Confronting a decline in the economy

    In an article entitled Panel offers survival tips for small businesses, Laura Copeland wrote recently in The Tennessean newspaper about the economy and the various ways to deal with the issues facing the world. It's a dry old subject I know,

  • Music Marketing on the cheap

    Bluegrass music is a little different from other her genres in our business model. Not many other styles of music can boast the healthy festival circuit that bluegrass has. Fans of other styles don't have the ready access to artists

  • Tim Carter launches Treehouse Studios

    Tim Carter, the banjo playing half of The Carter Brothers, has opened a recording studio in Ridgetop, TN - about 12 miles north of Nashville. Treehouse Studios was built as an addition to Tim's log home, with a separate entrance, rest

  • Two new Goodtime banjos

    Deering banjos has two new models in its popular Goodtime line of less expensive, American made instruments. The Goodtime banjos have been a hit with both new banjo pickers wanting to start with a low cost but solidly made instrument,

  • The big heart of Bull Harman

    Anyone who knows flatpicker and guitar workshop impresario Bull Harman knows him as among the most gregarious, warm-hearted people in our business. Always quick with a smile - and just as swift with a fiery lick - Bull is a

  • Jere Cherryholmes Should Be Ashamed

    I go to see live music to be moved, enlightened, and inspired by the performers. This indeed happened when I recently saw the Cherryholmes Family. I was moved - but neither enlightened nor inspired - by the

  • Comments have been fixed

    Hello all, We're sorry that comments have not been enabled on the majority of The B posts in recent months. Comments were, initially, set up to be on by default and something got changed that switched that. We're still not sure