Bluegrass At Large

  • The Fabulous Bagasse Boyz….with a Surprise

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    The Fabulous Bagasse Boyz Hey Listers........Boy has Cecil gone and done it now. Dats right....Cecil done gone and hired The Fabulous Bagasse Boyz to play at The Carroll County Market in Carrollton, Ms. on Saturday April 12th. Pooh Yi cher!!!!!!! What has he

  • Dannick introduces aluminum banjo tone ring

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    The American Made Banjo Co. will unveil their new lightweight banjo tone ring today at the SPBGMA convention in Nashville. The Aluminum Dannick tone ring came into being after American Made owner Tom Mirisola's search for a lighter banjo with a

  • The newest Gibson model

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    We just got a note from Eric Gibson, one half of the bluegrass singing and songwriting duo, The Gibson Brothers, with wonderful news. "Leigh Gibson and his wife Alison welcomed Joseph Arleigh into the world at 1:30 a.m. this morning." Congratulations to

  • Girl Scouts learn about bluegrass music

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    On Saturday, February 16, 2008, Girl Scouts will have the opportunity to earn a unique patch. The History of Bluegrass patch is only available by attending one of the two group tours being offered that Saturday at the International Bluegrass

  • Jerry Douglas Beard guitar

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    We picked up a few more details about the new Jerry Douglas signature resonator guitars from Beard Guitars, though there still isn't any new info on their web site. There will be two Douglas models - a production model and a

  • 25 million legal downloads, or not

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    Yesterday morning a new peer-to-peer music downloading application was launched called Qtrax. The service was launched with the announcement that the company had negotiated licenses with all the major labels and would have over 25 million songs available for download,

  • New Baldassari mandolin CD

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    Butch Baldassari has released a new old recording of jazz mandolin music on his Sound Art label. The Vespa Love Festival sessions was recorded in 1997 with Butch on mandolin, Jim Hoke on soprano sax, Byron House and Andy Spicher on