Bluegrass At Large

Butch Baldassari sent along a note to let let people know about a mandolin workshop he's holding November 11, 2006 in the Nashville area. There will be workshops for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. The workshops will be held at

Washburn Guitars is proud to note that their D10S guitar was honored earlier this month during the prestigious Music Industry Association Awards in London. The MIA is a British musical products trade association, roughly equivalent to NAAM, which started as

We have a number of new posts up on The B, with at least one that is generating some interesting back and forth. Check the post on Live Soundboard Recordings to witness the virulent disagreements elicited by the opposing sides

Alison Krauss in a Santa Suit? It could happen. Well probably not, but she will be aboard the 2006 Santa Train, The Santa Special. The train will be traveling a 110-mile route between Kingsport, TN and Pikeville, KY, stopping in

Anybody out there currently playing a Collings MT Mandolin?  Just need some feedback. Good buy?

IBMA 2006 Emerging Artist of the Year, Steep Canyon Rangers, will be featured on BluegrassCountry.org this afternoon. If you live in the DC area you can listen in high def on WAMU 88.5 channel 3. If not, you can listen

I wrote a huge post about Chris Thile's newest cd, How to Grow a Woman from the Ground, at my own blog and posted it up today. It's kind of old news to a lot of you, I'm sure,

Today marks the 36th anniversary of the first two album releases by Rounder Records. Rounder 0001 - George Pegram and Rounder 0002 - The Spark Gap Wonder Boys were both released on October 20th, 1970. In the following 36 years Rounder

Good morning how are you doing today? I am looking for any classic old soundboard or any radio broadcast recordings from any bluegrass festivals all across the united states. Do not worry none of these recordings are for listening pleasure only

This is a bit late arriving but better late than never. For those of you who did not get to attend The Blue Ridge Music Festival you missed some really great music. As is the case at most any show