Bluegrass At Large

Jack Cooke, is releasing his very first solo project on Pinecastle records. Jack has been playing bass for Ralph Stanley for thirty seven years, and many, including me, did not realize he had a very significant Bluegrass life prior to joining

We posted back in November when CMT announced their Music City Madness video contest, timed and structured to coincide with the annual NCAA basketball tournaments. We mentioned at the time that CMT was hoping to get some bluegrass entries, and

The February 2007 issue Journal of Political Economy contains a story written by Felix Oberholzer-Gee (Harvard University) and Koleman Strumpf (University of Kansas) which claims to have found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale

Tom Nechville, owner of Nechville Musical Products, has never been one to shy away from innovation in the banjo world. His Heli-Mount banjo frame (which replaces the brackets and coordinator rods), and the Nechville Meteor solid body electric banjos have

AcuTab has announced two new bluegrass instructional DVDs for release this spring, one each for banjo and mandolin. First up will be Bluegrass Banjo Master Class, featuring Bill Evans. This will be the fourth installment in AcuTab's popular Power Pickin' series,

Each week a floating community begins to appear at a campground or in a pasture or cornfield somewhere along the road. On Monday or Tuesday a few trailers and motor homes arrive and set up near a stage or

The South Florida Bluegrass Association presents its 29th annual Everglades Bluegrass Festival Feb 23, 24, 25. Appearibg this year will be Rhonda Vincent, (25th), James King, (23, 24& 25th), Everett Lilly (23, 24,), Randy Kohrs (23, 24th), Carolina Rebels

The Boston Bluegrass Union is hosting its annual Joe Val Festival this coming weekend, Feb. 16th - 18th, in Framingham, MA. Last year the Joe Val Festival won the IBMA Event of the Year Award and this year's festival

The Fabulous Bagasse Boyz will be doing a live radio performance this Saturday, February 17, on NPR station WRKF 89.3 in Baton Rouge, on Hootnanny Power with Taylor Caffery. The program can be heard via streaming audio live

If you live in or around the Memphis, TN area - there is a once a month show there you should try see.  The Lucy Opry is in it's 40th year.  They book acts about once a month - 11