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Bluegrass Gazette has launched as an online community site to promote and foster the bluegrass scene in Canada. It takes the form of both a monthly magazine, and a social networking interface under the direction of editor Rick Thompson. Monthly columns

USA Today had a nice feature on Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers in yesterday's (6/21) edition. The piece by Jerry Shriver is fairly typical of many such articles that have been published since Steve began touring in support of The

Punch Brothers continue to pop up everywhere you look, offering more evidence of how large an audience they have found for their unique acoustic/bluegrass/pop/rock hybrid. Two more prestigious publications have taken a look at their output in the past few

Tom Bibey is a physician and bluegrass musician living in North Carolina. Always an avid reader, Dr. B. has taken to writing more and more in recent years, and his blog (Dr. Tom Bibey: Stories of the Bluegrass Music Road)

If you missed Punch Brothers on The Tonight Show last night, here is the video from the June 16 episode. The song is Rye Whiskey, from their newly-released CD, Antifogmatic. Listening to the lyric, it would seem that the brothers are

Back in February, WAMU's Bluegrass Country ran an extended interview with Dudley Connell. The piece ran 3 hours, and the response from listeners all over the world caught the staff by surprise. They quickly scheduled a number of re-airings, and

Punch Brothers will perform on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight (6/17). They will be on promoting their brand new CD, Antifogmatic, and playing one of the songs from the album, Rye Whiskey. It seems that the boys have taken

Bluegrass fans have loved Dave Evans for years, both for his soulful banjo playing, sing and songwriting, and for his determination in the face of  overwhelming obstacles. Evans had worked with a number of seminal bluegrass bands, including Earl Taylor,

Danny Knicely and Tara Lindhart are a pair of bluegrass pickers and private instructors in Northern Virginia who have dedicated themselves to the furtherance of this music. They maintain a full schedule of students, many of them youngsters, and perform

Today's the day, all you Punch Brothers fans. Antifogmatic, the second release from Chris Thile and his merry band - the second under this name, at least - is out today on Nonesuch Records. While their previous effort (Punch) was focused