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An official trailer has been released for Herschel Sizemore: Mandolin In B, a film documentary of his life and musical career by Rick Bowman. The film is centered around a star-studded benefit show for Sizemore and his wife earlier this year,

Here's a fun video from DelFest, with The Del McCoury Band sharing the stage with Danny Paisley and Béla Fleck. Check out their soaring version of Can't You Hear Me Calling. That's some mighty fine pickin' and singin'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twD2YwCPXM8  

As part of the promotion for their new CD release, Nobody Knows You, Steep Canyon Rangers have posted a series of videos under the series title, Meet The Steeps. In the videos, each of the five Steeps receives a 4-5 minute opportunity

Balsam Range has posted a blooper reel from recent videos they have shot for their new fan site, Balsam Nation. If you are a fan of the band - or just get a kick out of video bloopers - you'll get

We just heard from Steve Martin, who shared this announcement about his annual banjo prize: Last March, the board of The Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass lost a founding member, the great Earl Scruggs. After brief deliberation,

The music video we referenced last week from Bill Evans' new album, In Good Company, has been released online. It's for the album's opening track, The Distance Between Two Points, a banjo instrumental Bill wrote with his daughter, Corey. The tune was

... always a teacher. At least that's what they say. Having been raised by parents who were teachers - and having done a fair bit of teaching myself - I know how close to the surface the pedagogic impulse lurks. You can

I spoke yesterday with California banjo player Bill Evans as he was driving north from the Bay Area to do shows this weekend in Washington and Oregon. Both tonight (6/1) in Seattle, and Saturday in Bend, will find him doing

If you missed the live Goat Rodeo Sessions concert that was broadcast on PBS May 25 - or if you would like to see it again - the video is now available online. The show was recorded live at the House

Gary Hultman of Birchdale, MN has been announced as the winner of the Harlow resonator guitar raffle which was conducted recently to benefit the Fayette County Humane Society in Ohio. Joe Mullins drew the winning ticket at MyClassicCountry in nearby Xenia from among the