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The New Acoustic Collective is a contemporary string band in the Bay area of California, dedicated to the sort of chamber swing and jazz popularized in the 1980s by artists like David Grisman and Tony Rice. Those old enough to remember

Attention banjo players and students! If you haven't already discovered Eli Gilbert's 12 Days of Licksmas videos, see that you do so post haste. Eli is a young banjo player from Maine, just making it into the under 30 crowd, who

Here's a Christmas treat for banjo lovers everywhere. Three of your favorite pickers will be doing a livestream concert tomorrow night (12/23) on Facebook, billed as the Bearded Banjo Santas Holiday Hang with Alan Munde, Béla Fleck, and Tony Trischka.

Sarah Chapman has released another music video today from her debut album, Winnebago, released earlier this year. It's her cover of There Is A Reason, a lovely song of faith written by Ron Block and first recorded by Alison Krauss &

Bluegrass Ambassadors - The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World, by Paul O. Jenkins, is now available from West Virginia University Press. The book purports to be the first book-length history of the McLains' long and profound legacy in

Back in the 1950s and '60s, a type of Christmas special was very popular on television, featuring popular singers as hosts. They would appear in homey scenes with their families, singing traditional carols, and drinking hot chocolate or egg nog.

With Christmas parties off the docket for most of us this year, many folks who have already pulled out their tacky holiday attire are wondering why they bothered. But there is still a chance to get a reaction from that appalling

The paperback edition of Wayfaring Stranger, the story of how a London author fell in love with bluegrass and old time music during a visit to the Appalachian region, is now available. Written by Emma John, city girl through and through,

The Stories We Can Tell, a live concert DVD released earlier late last year by North Carolina's Nu-Blu, is now included with Amazon Prime. That means that any subscriber to the Amazon Prime streaming service can watch the video at no

Nefesh Mountain has released a music video from their 2020 Hanukkah Concert, which streamed live this past Saturday night from The Barn at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY. It's their bluegrass arrangement of Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah, incorporating snippets