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The people in the Czech Republic have long had a fondness for bluegrass music, even before they escaped from the Soviet Union, when the music was forbidden. I have spoken with long-time Czech grassers who told me that part of

Ralph Stanley - the Good Doctor, the Dean of Mountain Music, and one of the few survivors from the earliest days of bluegrass music - is the subject of a feature in the current (January/February) edition of Garden & Gun

Bob Mitchell will feature The Sons Of Bluegrass, a group consisting of students studying for the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music degree at East Tennessee State University, on his Best Of Bluegrass show this weekend. The show will air Friday

The Porchlight Sessions, produced by Nashville and Los Angeles documentary filmmaker Anna Schwaber, will be screened in Redwood City on Sunday, January 27, as part of a free afternoon bluegrass film program. The Northern California Bluegrass Society will present the NCBS

The debut, self-titled CD from Flatt Lonesome isn't due until January 29 on Pisgah Ridge Records, but folks curious about this much-hyped young band can hear the entire album this morning on Track By Track with Kyle Cantrell on SiriusXM's Bluegrass

The Station Inn, a Nashville landmark for bluegrass music lovers for nearly 40 years, has been chosen as among the 2013 South's Best Bars in Southern Living magazine. They made the list this year in the Live Music category, along with

A few years ago we reported regularly on a young sibling trio from Georgia, who performed as The Lovell Sisters. Jessica, Rebecca and Megan Lovell were teen pickers and singers who turned quite a few heads with their lovely voices

WAMU's Bluegrass Country is debuting a new program this evening, Home Town Special, which will air on Sunday evenings from 7:00-9:00 p.m. (eastern). Hosting will be Jay Bruder, who will focus on vintage music from the 1940s through the early '60s. His interests are

As each new year gets underway, bluegrass folks start thinking about the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America, and their twin conventions in Jefferson City, MO and Nashville, TN. The Midwest Bluegrass Music Awards were announced on January 13 in

Rural Rhythm has begun releasing editions of their BlueHighways TV show, Behind The Dream, as online videos. The half hour program debuted last Fall, with Mike Scott serving as host. Each episode features a Rural Rhythm artist, combining one-on-one interviews with