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The Wright Kids, young bluegrassers on their way to becoming pop stars, have made it to the finals on America's Got Talent. They were voted into the top 10 based on their performance last week, and will appear again on

I'm just barely old enough to remember bluegrass shows that ran on television in the early mornings. During the summer I could often find Don reno, Arthur Smith or sometimes even Flatt & Scruggs appearing on one of the early

Blue Highway is celebrating their first Cashbox cover, which graced the September 8, 2008 issue. Old timers in the music biz remember Cash Box as a prominent industry publication and one-time competitor of Billboard who put out a print edition from

Country Music Goodness, a blog covering the wide spectrum of country music, published a brief interview with banjo ace Earl Scruggs yesterday, Sunday, September 14th, 2008. Although a very brief conversation, Scruggs is asked about his contemporaneous perception of his time

There are a number of opportunities to catch some special bluegrass programming and live music today (Friday, 9/12). At 1:00 p.m. (EDT), Carrie Hassler will be interviewed on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Carrie will join WWB host Gracie Muldoon to talk about her latest

The nominees for the 2008 Country Music Awards were announced earlier this week, and there are only two bluegrass-related artists who made the cut. Jerry Douglas is nominated again for Musician Of The Year, and award he has won three times

We have posted a number of times this year about the movie, Billy: The Early Years, a bio pic dramatization of the childhood and youth of celebrated evangelist Billy Graham. The bluegrass connection comes in the fact that young mandolin/vocal

Rounder has announced that they will release A Hundred Miles or More: Live From The Tracking Room featuring Alison Krauss on DVD this fall. This presentation was aired on GAC television last year when Alison's A Hundred Miles Or More: A

Former Dillard and current fiction writer Mitch Jayne has just learned that he will be receiving the 2008 Governor's Humanities Book Award from the Missouri Humanities Council. The award is in recognition of his book, Fiddler's Ghost, published in 2007.

Tonight (9/9), young bluegrassers The Wright Kids take the stage of NBC's America's Got Talent to try and pick and sing their way into the show's Top 10 finalists. Winners are chosen each week by audience vote, and the kids