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It's often said these days that if you could figure out and bottle what makes videos go viral online, you'd have a pot of gold on your hands. Every so often, something universal in the human condition is captured digitally,

Tom Nechville, banjo builder and the man behind the innovative Nechville Musical Products company, is the latest subject to sit for banjo archivist Bud Bennett and his Appalachian Music and Culture blog. Bud has to date posted lengthy, in-depth interviews with several notable banjo

More sad news from the world of internet radio... Richard Cifersky has informed us that his European online bluegrass radio project, Radio Velvet, has discontinued their streaming service. The Slovak-based 24/7 network has been operating for the past two years, managed

WAMU, which has provided a home for bluegrass music in our nation's capitol since July 1967, has made the decision to switch to an all news and information format starting January 1, 2017. As a result, their bluegrass streaming service,

Rebekah Long has released a music video for Ain't Life Sweet, the opening track on her newly-released Here I Am CD. It's a song she wrote with Donna Ulisse and Rick Stanley about the country life. Donna was her producer for

As the bluegrass world has mourned the loss of a titan in the form of Ralph Stanley, a topic on many people's minds has been the preservation of his music and the possible loss of his distinctive mountain sound against

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the participants in its 2016 World of Bluegrass Songwriter Showcase. Each year the ten best songs from the dozens submitted for consideration are selected, and the writers are invited to perform them during IBMA's

Chris Jones & the Night Drivers have released a new music video, recorded live during a June 4 performance at Randy Wood's Old Time Pickin' Parlor in Georgia. This time it's a bluegrass cover of a Tom T. Hall song from the

Mountain Home Music has released a live music video for Lonesome River Band. It's of them performing Rocking The Cradle at the Historic Isis Music Hall in Asheville, NC. The song is included on their current album, Bringing The Tradition, released earlier

The tributes to Ralph Stanley this past week have been both numerous and poignant, demonstrating how deeply his music and his kindness have touched others over a 70 year career. One that we just received shows that it wasn't just in his