• IBMA members attend Summer NAMM for free

    The International Bluegrass Music Association has struck a deal to allow its members to attend the Summer NAMM show in Nashville at no charge, and without registering as a NAMM member. To take advantage of this option, you need to

  • Dailey & Vincent: On The Other Side – video

    The award winning bluegrass duo Dailey & Vincent have just wrapped filming on a music video for the song On The Other Side. The song comes from their most recent album Brothers From Different Mothers. The video was directed by Julian

  • Mark Brinkman makes the news

    Noted bluegrass songwriter Mark "Brink" Brinkman is profiled in today's edition of The Columbus Dispatch. The focus of the piece is a new song of Brink's, With Love from Normandy, which he had performed at a Memorial Day celebration this past

  • Richard F. Thompson assumes the position…

    ...of editor at British Bluegrass News. We have been privileged to publish much of Richard's writing here on Bluegrass Today this past few years, and congratulate both he and the British Bluegrass Music Association, who publishes BBN, for his being elevated

  • Flatt and Scruggs blog

    Tom Thomas, the President of the Flatt and Scruggs Preservation Society, has announced the creation of a blog that will naturally focus on matters relating to Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Thomas said of his blog... "(It) will display any new information

  • Donna Ulisse on Track-By-Track

    Donna Ulisse's recent studio visit with Kyle Cantrell for the taping of his popular Bluegrass Junction show Track-By-Track will be broadcast for the first time on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:00am. EST. Ulisse and Cantrell discussed and played all thirteen

  • Bluegrass Babies

    Here's a cute video for young children designed to pique their natural curiosity about music, using animation and bluegrass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DACmET6qI6MIt was created by Caroline Roberts, a children's book illustrator, and Paul Castle, who plays with the British folk/bluegrass group The Rosinators. Roberts

  • Steve Martin on Idol video

    In case you mssed it on Fox last night, here is the video of Steve Martin performing on American Idol. The song is Pretty Flowers from his current release, The Crow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPK5sEG_yJ8

  • Young grassers in The Boston Globe

    This past Sunday's (5/17) edition of The Boston Globe carried a feature by Scott Alarik about the emergence of more and more young folk artists on the scene. The article has a Boston angle, as you might expect, but it does