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The folks at BluegrassCountry.org have a special program running this next two weeks, highlighting some of the live performances they have presented on their 24/7 bluegrass audio stream. The show is entitled Fantasy Festival at the Kampground of Our Minds, and

Sirius Bluegrass (Channel 65) is giving New Year's Eve over to Del McCoury, with 36 hours of back-to-back McCoury. Starting Monday (12/31) at noon and running throughout New Year's Day, Sirius Bluegrass will air encore presentations of their Hand Picked with

The music video for Sadie's Got Her New Dress On, from the latest Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver CD, More Behind The Picture Than The Wall, debuts today at CMT.com. It's a production video, complete with dancers, Sadie and several new

This weekend's two Grand Ole Opry broadcasts have much to recommend them to bluegrass fans. Tonight's show (12/28) will feature performances by The Grascals, Bradley Walker and Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press. The show is broadcast on WSM AM-650

There are six short videos up on Gibson's web site that feature banjo legend Earl Scruggs discussing his life and career in bluegrass and acoustic music. It seems that they were all recorded earlier this year. Each of the links below

Mel Bay Publications has a new book/CD set sure to be of interest to serious mandolinists. The Complete Mandolinist is written by Marilynn Mair, a professor of music at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and an internationally recognized artist and

Our friend Ted Lehmann has just celebrated his 1st anniversary as a blogger, posting at Ted Lehmann's Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms. To celebrate, he has posted several portfolios of the photos he has taken at festivals and concerts over the past

We've posted repeatedly about Punch Brothers, the most recent permutation of Chris Thile's supremely talented band of acoustic superpickers. Their debut release on Nonesuch Records is due on 2/28/08 built around Thile's composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind - a magnum

Here's a late Christmas present from Sirius Bluegrass... Later this morning, they will present a live, in-studio performance of the music from Tony Trischka's award-winning recording, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular. The CD features Tony in duet with some of the most

Niall Toner will be on Ireland's RT?â Radio 1 this week with the first two installments of his Nashville Sessions series, recorded while he was in attendance at the IBMA World Of Bluegrass convention earlier this fall. These shows will air