Bluegrass At Large

In a previous post, we told of Canadian banjo picker Jayme Stone's journey through West Africa in preparation for an upcoming CD based on African banjo music. He has agreed to send us a series of updates from Africa -

This is the second in a series of article about The New Music Business. I've been a bit out of pocket this week as I'm on vacation, but even so I noticed the news concerning EMI's decision to license DRM free

Here's another post from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Typically, the April edition of the

Just for fun here a video from YouTube of Tony Rice playing Shenandoah. This performance is taken from the DVD Bluegrass Journey. And, from what I can tell, was posted to YouTube by the producers. Hat tip: Fretboard Journal

Delta Reign, a Mobile, AL/Pensacola,FL based "delta style" bluegrass band will be coming to Nashville this week to back up a new young talent, "Ruby Jane Smith" who will be performing for some industry folks there this Wednesday, April 4th. If

    Goodness, gracious, sakes alive . . . they're good!  I received my Flatt & Scruggs early shows DVD's yesterday and had a look at some of them last night.  They are great.  From the liner notes it appears that

Saturday April 14, 2007, 4:00pm The annual bluegrass concert will be held in the Flagler Kenan Pavilion on Saturday April 14th at 4 p.m. The Kr?ºger Brothers make their second appearance at the Pavilion stage playing great Americana music at one

The numbers are in for the first quarter and they don't look promising, at least not on the surface. Nielsen SoundScan reports that 89 million CDs were sold from January 1 through March 18. That's a drop of nearly 20%

Steve's CD is now available at http://www.stevegulley.com and/or http://www.grasstowne.com *** Preorder Steve's CD "Sounds Like Home" RIGHT NOW! *** Preorder the CD and it will be shipped to your door on April 17th! Logistics is keeping me from getting my hands on Grasstowne's

Jackson Hole Wyoming - with Anne & Pete Sibley What:  2007 Mountain Bluegrass Camp for Kids When:  July 19 & 20 Where:  Center for the Arts - Music Center REGISTRATION HAS BEGUN for the 5th annual, Jackson Hole Music Experience Mountain