Bluegrass At Large

Here's a bit of lighthearted bluegrass history for your post-Christmas climbdown... The anecdote comes from multi-instrumentalist and singer Orrin Starr. It involves a phone conversation between fiddler Jim Moss and James Monroe. Jim is a prominent west coast fiddler, and he

One of my clients, and my best friend, Alisa Burdett has made the cover of BU! One of her photos was selected for the January 2008 cover and a handful of her pics are included in the '08 Festival

Brittany Reilly w/Almost Acoustic Band Spring Tour 2008 Brittany Reilly is hitting the road w/Almost Acosutic Band again this spring to promote her new CD release "Good Old Country Sound". The tour will start in the FL Keys & go all

Could someone please tell me how I can download a copy of the Users Manual for this tuner....or tell me how to use it? I just started learning the different rolls on my used banjo and would like to know how

Niall Toner will be on Ireland's RT?â Radio 1 this week with the first two installments of his Nashville Sessions series, recorded while he was in attendance at the IBMA World Of Bluegrass convention earlier this fall. These shows will air

Wichita Rutherford remembers things most of us were unaware ever happened. When I asked him about his favorite Christmas memories the other day, he poured his heart out, and asked that we share it all with you. Christmas. What

This Christmas dialog comes from Brandi Hart and Buddy Woodward of The Dixie Bee-Liners. 'Nuff said... BUDDY: Enter Mike Wallace...dateline, Christmas season 2005. Location, the capital of country music, New York City. We had just put out

Banjo picker Bill Evans, author of the popular Banjo For Dummies book, recalls his Christmas of the banjo... It was Christmas 1970 and, even though my eight track tape player was constantly playing George Harrison's All Things Must Pass and John

Mandolin prodigy Sierra Hull shares her fondest Christmas memory. I can't believe how quickly Christmas seems to come and go each year, and of course, each year always brings along some sort of new memory for me. One, however, that I'm

Here are two more Christmas memories from The Grascals. First up is fiddler Jimmy Mattingly. One of my fondest memories at Christmas as a teenager was waking up and spending the morning with my family, and then calling my best