Bluegrass At Large

If you've done business with Huber Banjos in the last few years, chances are you had a conversation with Sam Calveard. Sam handled customer service at Huber from 2005 to 2007, and made a lot of friends during his time

The Fabulous Bagasse World Tour That's right . . . you read that correctly . . . *The Fabulous Bagasse Boyz* are going on the road! We all knew this day was coming and here it is. We have finally got

The hot link to Masters of the Five Sting Banjo fails. The address for this excellent book is: http://www.acutab.com/artists/masters/masters.html <> Buy it, read it, enjoy it. <>Mark

In late February we posted the news that iTunes had moved into the number two position in the ranking of the top music retailers in the US. The same group (NPD) has just released a new report for the first

John Pennell, bass player with The Charlie Sizemore Band, asked us to post this remembrance of his friend, Wayne Fields, who died on March 21. Wayne played banjo with Sizemore, and is featured on his recent CD, Good News, released in

We posted last week with the happy news that John and Vickie Chapman were celebrating the birth of their daughter, Kylie, tempered with the sadder news that she was being treated for complications from Meconium Aspiration. We now hear that Kylie

Long-time students of bluegrass instruments will recall with fondness the name Oak Publications, a division of Music Sales that released some fine instructional manuals for banjo, guitar, mandolin, fiddle and bass starting in the 1970s. While the brand has remained

Here's a brief update to our post from last week about Gibson's new limited edition Earl Scruggs Flint Hill Special banjo model. In our previous post, we mentioned that no pricing information was found on the Gibson site, and that our

We've got what sounds like a great show at Komedia Brighton! Recapturing the Banjo features Guy Davis, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Otis Taylor & Don Vapple - the leaders of the new generation of black American blues masters celebrate the African

Runaway Freight will be on "live from the pick Inn " radio show this Thursday. The band will perform their new single "welcome aboard."  "Welcome aboard" is their new single from primecuts of bluegrass volume 92 and it is