• New IBMA Board members announced

    The seating of five newly-elected members of  the Board of Directors for the International Bluegrass Music Association has just been announced. Three incumbent board members return to their seats along with two new members to fill the Board's full complement

  • Grascals 2009 video report

    The Grascals have put together an informal video to keep their fans up to date with all their comings and goings this year. Jamie Johnson, Terry Eldridge and Danny Roberts take turns interviewing each other as they talk about visiting

  • Dale Ann video on CMT.com

    The video for Don't Turn Your Back, the title track from Dale Ann Bradley's new CD on Compass, is making waves at CMT Pure. She beat out country heavyweights Taylor Swift, Keith Urban and Alan Jackson polling #2 in last

  • A pilgrimage to Kalamazoo

    Serious students of the mandolin have long revered the name of Lloyd Loar, the Gibson luthier from the 1920s whose design innovations during his brief 5 year tenure are widely credited with revolutionizing their fretted instruments. Gibson's most prized mandolins

  • Sarah Jarosz sings on TV

    Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Jarosz, whose debut CD Song Up In Her Head is just out on Sugar Hill, performed live on KXAN television in Austin, TX about two weeks ago. Her solo version of the title track shows the

  • Marty Raybon on Track-By-Track

    Marty Raybon is next up on the Bluegrass Junction Track-By-Track show on Sirius-XM, starting this morning (7/1) at 11:00 a.m. (EDT). He and host Kyle Cantrell will play through all 14 tracks of Marty's new CD, This, That & The Other,

  • Abrams Brothers on CMT

    Just yesterday we mentioned that The Abrams Brothers would have a live CD out this year, and we now see that they have a major studio project in the works as well. This Canadian teen bluegrass trio has hooked up with

  • Ask Doyle, part 5

    If it's Friday, it must be time for another installment of Ask Doyle, Doyle Lawson's weekly webisode. Hear Doyle describe how he chooses which songs to include on a show, and what it takes to be a part of his

  • Steve Martin on PHC

    Steve Martin will appear on the season finale of A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, June 27. As has often been the case, he will be performing with Steep Canyon Rangers. Hosted as usual by Garrison Keillor the program will be