Bluegrass At Large

The Bluegrass Band, Buncombe Turnpike of Asheville, NC, has made it through the third round of voting on CMT's Music City Madness. We are now the last bluegrass band standing in the competition for best original song and video. Please

We received a note last night from David and Linda Lay, sharing the news that Carson Cooper had passed away yesterday afternoon (3/8/07). He had been battling liver cancer for quite some time, and was well known to bluegrass people

The Southwest Indiana Bluegrass Association after only being an association for seven months will put on their first festival this October 12th thru 14th. This is a really big deal for such a small group of dedicated musicians who are

This Month, I will have the delightful duo of Ronnie and Stan on my show, Muldoon in the Afternoon at the WWB Worldwidebluegrass. Scheduled in for Friday the 30th of March at 1:30 pm Eastern! I met Stan this past

2007 marks the 50th anniversary of the Gibson Company acquiring the Epiphone brand, which they have continued to operate as a separate product line. Though it now largely consists of less expensive replicas of popular Gibson models, Epiphone was once a

Royalties are bound to be sought by those that can get them, wherever they can get them, but I think they're getting a false sense of monetary windfall, especially when it comes to bluegrass listeners as compared to other types

The Kissimmee Bluegrass Festival was held last weekend in Kissimmee, FL.  I've posted a review on my blog at www.tedlehmann.blogspot.com which I invite you to read there rather than taking up bandwidth on this site.  I look forward to hearing

Recent updates on the official IBMA web site list a number of important deadlines to keep in mind. April 16 is the last date to apply for funding from their International Outreach Program, which issues grants to further projects that "foster

Internet radio has become a great way to hear bluegrass in the last few years. I talk with more and more people who listen online. Now the RIAA has successfully convinced the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) to adopt at "per

The European Bluegrass Blog has a post from Rienk Janssen this morning noting that submissions for the 2007 European World Of Bluegrass Guide must be received by March 15 to be included in the official publication. This would include European bluegrass