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We've posted several times over the past two years about online workshops hosted at The Banjo Lounge, with participants joining in via audio chat. To date, these workshops have all focused on three finger banjo picking, but in response to

It's the start of a new month, and that means that Bluegrass Junction, XM Satellite Radio's 24/7 bluegrass channel, has a new top 4o for July. The mothly album list is compiled based on listener requests and how often individual

Nickel Creek launched the final push in their Farewell (For Now) tour yesterday, with two weeks' worth of dates with pop singer Fiona Apple. All involved seem excited about the collaboration, which will feature Nickel Creek both performing their set,

With the July 15th deadline for the new internet radio royalty rates come and gone, SoundExchange and the webcasters are still trying to reach some kind of settlement. At least the webcasters are trying. Broadcasters report that their June 6 offer

The Country Music Hall Of Fame And Museum in Nashville has announced that the next two volumes of the Best Of Flatt & Scruggs TV Show will be released on DVD October 9, 2007. Like the first two volumes which

The Lubbock Avalanche Journal ran a nice feature last week about Camp Bluegrass, the annual week-long bluegrass immersion workshop hosted by nearby South Plains College in Levelland, TX. The camp ran from July 22-27, and the piece in the Avalanche

Newsweek and MSNBC.com have posted an online feature on The Carolina Chocolate Drops, the black string band making waves at festivals all over the US this summer. Their sound is a mix of jug band and old time music, but

Rhonda Vincent is the All American Bluegrass Girl and this last weekend she helped bring bluegrass music to the all American sport, NASCAR racing. Saturday, July 28, 2007, at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis, IN, Rhonda treated the NASCAR fans

Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m. marks the official radio premiere of the new Rebel Records CD from The Steep Canyon Rangers on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. Host Kyle Cantrell will play each of the tracks from Lovin' Pretty Women,

If you tune in (log on) to WorldWideBluegrass.com at 6:00 p.m. EDT this evening (7/31), you can hear an interview with Greg Cahill, banjo player with Special Consensus, and Board Chair for the IBMA. He will join WWB host Uncle