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Bob Perilla's Big Hillbilly Bluegrass has recently embarked on a goodwill European tour, sponsored by the US State Department. They will perform in Moldova, Croatia, Georgia, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan during the month of June, before heading for The Dominican Republic

Rick Williams has a new free guitar/mandolin lesson up at BluegrassBooksOnline. This time out, he has arrangements of the popular fiddle tune, Big Sandy River. Two versions of the tune are available for both mandolin and guitar, with each version including

The latest effort from noted bluegrass music author Neil Rosenberg, The Music Of Bill Monroe, which Richard Thompson profiled for us late last year, is now shipping from the University of Illinois Press. It was written in conjunction with the

Ronnie McCoury recently held a bluegrass luau and picking party in Nashville. The party guests included a who's who of Nashville bluegrass stars. Our friend Wichita Rutherford, the podcasting superstar, was on hand with a video camera. He's uploaded the video

ukbluegrass.com has first hand reports on the recently-concluded European World Of Bluegrass in The Netherlands. Two British bands traveled to Voorthuizen to participate in the EWOB, and each wrote of their time at the convention. Both EWOB veterans, The New Essex

Tom and Lucy Warlick have written a book on the WBT Briarhoppers, an "accidental" hillbilly band formed to perform on Charlotte, NC radio station WBT in 1934. The group was formed when an advertiser, Consolidated Drug Trade Company of Chicago,

Andrea Bradstreet, who hosts a weekly bluegrass radio program on KRFC in Fort Collins, CO, asked us to pass the word about Live@Lunch. It's a live, in-studio music show which runs from noon to 1:00 p.m. (Mountain) weekdays, and on

Foothills Radio Group, in Lenoir, NC, has announced the creation of a new all-bluegrass radio station. The station is WKGX and can be found at 1080 on the AM dial. Previously an all sports format, the station will now be

Members of North Carolina-based bluegrass/gospel group Harvest Wind were en route to a show in Missouri this past Friday (5/25) when their van was struck from behind, sending the vehicle into the path of a tractor trailer. The accident occurred

BluegrassCountry.org is featuring a live concert performance by the Claire Lynch Band in their Special Programming segment from now until the end of May. The show was recorded last month in DC, and marked the final appearance of long-time mandolinist