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The Travel Channel has a block of shows tonight (5/5) from their popular Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern program. The premise of the show is that the host travels far and wide to sample some of the most unusual -

Ned Luberecki, noted banjo picker and Sirius XM bluegrass radio host, will be combining these two professional callings during his Sunday shows this month. Starting this weekend, Ned will bring the banjo along for his Sunday afternoon shift on Bluegrass Junction,

Sam Bush will be a musical guest on this weekend's edition of A Prairie Home Companion, aired on hundreds of public radio stations throughout the US. The show will be broadcast live on Saturday afternoon (5/2) at 6:00 p.m. (EDT)

Cherryholmes has debuted a new music video, for the song Bleeding from their current Skaggs Family release, Don't Believe. The video has the band in the bus, doing sound check and on stage for a show. This one is an all-family

This past Friday, Special Consensus spent the day in Nashville doing radio spots and celebrating the release of their latest CD. Fearless leader Greg Cahill sent along this report. The Station Inn in Nashville was the site for The Special C

Fiddler Casey Driessen has presented to the music world as something of a stylistic enigma. As a fiddler he is equally well trained in the bluegrass and old time traditions, and he has a music degree from The Berklee College

We found some more great Merlefest coverage online. Cindy Baucom has posted a number of photos she took during the festival on her Knee Deep In Bluegrass blog. She has shots from stage shows, from backstage and some in the vendors'

The May/June edition of Bluegrass Music Profiles helped to fill the mail box this past Saturday morning. This latest edition of the glossy bi-monthly magazine has as its main feature a six-page, wide-ranging profile of that prolific bluegrass song writing duo

The BBC has a terrific slide show with commentary online about Béla Fleck's Throw Down Your Heart project, which has resulted in both an audio CD release and a documentary film by that name. The CD and film serve as a

Berklee Today, the quarterly alumni magazine of The Berklee College Of Music, has a feature on the school's embrace of country, bluegrass and Americana music as part of their instructional program. Written by Christopher John Treacy, and entitled Out Of The