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When The Claire Lynch Band was in Sarasota, Florida on Sunday they made a side trip to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune where they filmed this video performance for the paper's web site. Claire and the boys highlighted a number of songs

As promised, classical banjoist John Bullard is featured in the latest installment of Bud Bennett's Appalachian Music and Culture blog. Bud works in the McConnell Library’s Archives and Special Collections Department at Radford University in Virginia. He is also a banjo player who has blended

The International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY has opened their special Tom T. and Dixie Hall exhibit, which will remain open at the museum through June of 2017. It includes artifacts from the private collection of Tom T. and his

The world of online podcasting continues to provide opportunities for folks with something to say, to say it to the wider community at a minimum of expense and trouble. A microphone, a computer, and an online connection is all that

Southern rockers Confederate Railroad have a new album out today, and it retains their well-established image as gruff and gritty bad boys. There's plenty of Waylon and Willie to be found - quite literally, as guests Willie Nelson, John Anderson, and

New York bluegrass singer/songwriter Abby Hollander has released a live video of she and her band performing at the Rockwood Music Hall in lower Manhattan earlier this week. It's their arrangement of Mary Ann - not the classic Jimmy Martin song, but one

Mountain Home Music has released a second live video of Flatt Lonesome from their April 28 performance at the Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. The entire show was recorded, both for audio and video, capturing this exciting young group before an

The International Bluegrass Music Association has extended the deadline to submit names to be considered for their 2016 Momentum Awards. These annual awards are designed to highlight bluegrass artists and industry people in the early years of their musical careers, and recognize

On July 22, 2016, The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville will feature a discussion with Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour - The Life and Music of Curly Seckler. The book, recently published by the University

This Friday's release of Rattle & Roar from The Earls of Leicester is among the most eagerly anticipated albums of 2016 to date in the bluegrass and acoustic music world. Their success since first appearing in 2013 has surprised a