• Chapmans radio push this week

    The Chapmans are spending this week doing radio publicity for their new CD, Grown Up (A Revisionist History), recently released on Compass Records. The boys will be on live tomorrow morning (3/17) with Bill Cody on WSM 650 AM from Nashville

  • Slate.com misunderstands bluegrass music

    Slate.com recently ran an article about Steve Martin entitled: Late-Period Steve Martin. The subtitle proves helpful in understanding what the piece is about: How to understand the actor, novelist, essayist, playwright, banjo player, crotch-centric variety show performer, and Oscar co-host. The author's concern

  • Things That Fly promo video

    Chris Pandolfi, the multi-talented banjo picker with The Infamous Stringdusters, has added yet another clever stop action video to his oeuvre. This one is plugging the band's next CD, Things That Fly, set for an April 20 release on Sugar Hill.

  • Bluegrass Gospel USA adds affiliates

    Bill Miller, host and producer of Bluegrass Gospel USA!, is pleased to announce several new affiliates for his weekly radio show. It is offered at no charge to commercial and non-commercial stations looking for non-denominational Gospel music programming. Miller has worked

  • Special C – Bluegrass In The Schools

    Fred Robbins has spent many years chronicling bluegrass music, as a photographer and audio recordist starting in the 1960s, and more recently as a videographer as well. He has had articles published in Bluegrass Unlimited and is an active member

  • Lou Reid in the Spring BMP

    Lou and Christy Reid grace the cover of the March/April 2010 issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. The lengthy interview with Lou covers his growing up with bluegrass, his first bands, his days with Doyle Lawson and Ricky Skaggs, and his

  • Bill Emerson to get Washington Monument Award

    The DC Bluegrass Union is a strong and growing organization dedicated to promoting bluegrass music in the Washington, DC area, which includes the heavily populated Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland regions. They are hosting their first festival on March 27

  • The Cleverlys

    I just discovered The Cleverlys this morning, even though their facebook page says they've been around since 1952. It's a family band according to their Facebook bio, which I have no reason to disbelieve. Their music isn't exactly traditional bluegrass. I

  • Nedski & Mojo on Music City Roots

    Among the guests on last night's (3/3) edition of Music City Roots were Nedski & Mojo (Ned Luberecki and Stephen Mougin). Both are familiar faces (and voices) in the bluegrass world, but typically in supporting roles. The Nedski & Mojo Show