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This morning's (8/5) edition of The View on ABC will include a live in-studio performance from Alison Krauss & Union Station. The band is on tour promoting their new CD, Paper Airplane, and making a stop in NYC between shows in

Zach Gilmer is now playing banjo and guitar, and providing harmony vocals, as a member of Sierra Hull & Highway 111. He's been with the band for a couple months, and Sierra says that he's committed for the next year

Here is another video from Grey Fox, again with a Kenny Baker tribute theme. This time, we have Tim O'Brien and Chris Thile offering up a twin mandolin version of Bill Monroe's Jerusalem Ridge, long associated with Baker for his definitive

The August edition of the venerable Banjo NewsLetter is out, with adventurous 5-string jazz banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh on the cover. Ryan spent the early aughts impressing judges at banjo competitions like Renofest, Merlefest and RockyGrass, each of which crowned his

Monroeville has released a second live video from their recent shoot at the Dumplin Valley Farm RV Park which also produced the Devil's Rope video we posted last week. The tune this time around is Passive Aggressive, included on their self-titled

Phil Bankester set a camera up back at the soundboard during The Bankesters' CD release party at Nashville's Station Inn on July 6. They were celebrating their newest album, appropriately titled The Bankesters, which includes a duet between Emily Bankester and

We posted back in April about Fanning The Fire, a short documentary film about bluegrass music that was produced in association with the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation in Texas. The film follows Texas teen Lucas White in his bluegrass adventure from a

There's bluegrass a'plenty on this weekend's edition on Mountain Stage, airing on dozens of NPR affiliates across the US. Nashville bad boys Mountain Heart will be featured, as well as Michigan's Greensky Bluegrass and the singing bluegrass attorney, Charlie Sizemore -

I've known a number of banjo picking attorneys in my day (insert joke here), but Jim Gabeheart is the first five-slinging prosecutor to make my acquaintance. In addition to his duties as an Assistant Prosecutor in Lincoln County, WV, Jim plays

Bob Mitchell, host of Best Of Bluegrass, will welcome Driftwood to his show this week, broadcasting via Radio Bluegrass International (RBI), a project of the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. They will be performing music from their 2010