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With so much of the world focused this week on the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, it seems fitting that a video of Chinese bluegrass has been posted on YouTube. Here is Mei Han's Red Chamber picking a solid version

Blue Highway's resophonic guitar master Rob Ickes has a new project released this week (8/8). Contemporary Dobro Artistry is a CD/DVD set from Mel Bay Publications that offers both CD audio and DVD video of Rob in a variety of live

The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum's successful quarterly program series 'Nashville Cats: A Celebration of Music City Session Players' returns on Saturday, August 23, with a salute to legendary fiddler Buddy Spicher. The interactive program, hosted by Stringed Instrument

Y'all Wire, a large country music video web site, has announced their Top 8 Bluegrass Videos for 2008 to date. The video ratings are based on the site's Multivariate Audience Meter, which measures a video's popularity of "audience engagement." In

We have a bit of closure on a story that has incensed a good many fans of old time and traditional country music, one which has prompted two posts here on Bluegrass Today this past two weeks. The Tennesean is reporting

Ex-pat British banjo picker Johnny Butten will be among the guests on today's (8/8) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. Johnny was born and raised in England where he learned to play bluegrass banjo as a boy, winning multiple competitions

The July 21, 2008 issue of Newsweek magazine included a feature on banjo player, vocalist and songwriter Abigail Washburn and her current touring and recording venue, Sparrow Quartet. The magazine's Brian Braiker caught up with Abby and fellow quartet members B?©la

In December of 2007 we told you the story of Bluegrass FM. An FM radio station that was starting a second station and pursuing an unusual business model. General Manager, Pete Stover, contacted us recently with an update and some

Bluegrass fiddler and legendary Ohio Valley radio personality Paul 'Moon' Mullins passed away on August 3. He had been in a nursing home for about a month. He was 71 years old. Mullins was diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy in 2007,

Rural Rhythm Records has been releasing some really good bluegrass in the last few years. They've also been working hard to make sure we all get to hear this great music. One of their efforts in that regard has been