During last year's IBMA World of Bluegrass, WAMU's Bluegrass Country and Raleigh's WUNC hosted a special, invitation-only concert at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, located a few blocks from the Raleigh Convention Center where most of the IBMA events
MilkDrive is another young string band that uses the instruments and techniques of the old time and bluegrass traditions to create their own unique brand of alternative pop music. They are based in Austin, TX, where the wide and varied arts scene
As promised, Michael Cleveland unveiled his new young banjo player, Gaven Largent, during his set at SPBGMA last weekend. Largest who had been a SPBGMA regular since he was a young teen showed the audience more accustomed to seeing him
Punch Brothers took new music from their just-released album, The Phosphorescent Blues, to late night TV, appearing yesterday on Conan. They performed a tongue-in-cheek song of seduction, Magnet, with fiddler Gabe Witcher operating some sort of mechanized percussion. Check it out.
A new string band has sprung up in Baltimore, taking as their name one of the several nicknames by which the port city is known. Charm City Junction plays a hybrid style defined by its diverse members: a bluegrass fiddler (Patrick
West Virginia's Circa Blue has seen some changes of late. They have two new members to introduce, Malia Furtado on fiddle and Terry Chism on bass, and have just released a video that mixes live performances from the band with
The Grammys weren't the only major awards being distributed in the music world this past weekend. Last night in Nashville the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music for America (SPBGMA) announced the winners of their annual poll during the
At yesterday's Grammy Awards, the 57th annual presentation, The Earls of Leicester won for Best Bluegrass Album. What a treat for bluegrass loyalists to see the music of Flatt & Scruggs honored by The Recording Academy. Old Crow Medicine Show's Remedy
Every year since 1991 the IBMA initiates the induction of deserving personnel into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (first called the Hall of Honor). The Hall of Fame is situated in the Owensboro, Kentucky-based International Bluegrass Music Museum and
What does bluegrass music from Austin, TX sound like? Well, if you're not familiar with Wood & Wire, their new video of Dancin' On My Grave, recorded live for KUTX public radio last week, may offer a clue. In addition to
