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Here's a lovely bluegrass Christmas gift from the Green Whisky Boys in Czech Republic - a Christmas sing at a pub in Chotýcany. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-qkDz0n6Y Veselé Vánoce, everybody!

Kansan Mark A. Johnson has done a great service for the bluegrass profession with his new digital publication, Stage Performance Guide For Your Bluegrass Band. Throughout this 60 page e-book, Johnson discusses the art of performance, as opposed to simply playing

Prescription Bluegrass has launched a 90 second weekly bluegrass news program, offered via syndication to any radio programmers who want to keep their audience abreast of what's going on in the bluegrass world. It will be voiced by Brian McNeal, host

Video from the December 4 Curly Seckler interview and performance at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville is now available online. Kyle Cantrell of Sirius-XM's Bluegrass Junction serves as host, along with Curly's collaborator Penny Parsons, as

The Roys are the most recent artists to sign with Rural Rhythm Records. Lee and Elaine Roy are brother-and-sister duet partners with a rich bluegrass heritage, which they employ alongside more contemporary Americana and country influences. A new Rural Rhythm project,

The Gibson Brothers have created a video preview for, Help My Brother, their next Compass Records release which is due early next year. Eric and Leigh talk about the songs, the songwriters, and a number of guests artists - plus we

Once again PopMatters, the webzine of popular culture, has included bluegrass in their lists of the Best Music of 2010. And as you might expect from a more mainstream publication, their picks are heavy on the edgier, contemporary side of

The first video from The Grascals' upcoming CD, The Grascals & Friends has been released. The video for I Am Strong was shot on site at the St. Judes Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, with Dolly Parton as their special guest.

The nominees for the 2011 Awards from the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America have been announced, and are posted on the SPBGMA web site. There are a lot of familiar names in the list. Rhonda Vincent is

Mel Bay has published a book of transcriptions and arrangements based on the playing of influential old time banjo picker Kyle Creed. It was compiled by two of today's clawhammer masters, Bob Carlin and Dan Levenson, who take a complementary,