Media

Many of you may remember the first time world renowned podcast superstar, Wichita Rutherford, posted a Guest Contributor piece here on Bluegrass Today. We thought it was great to have him writing the occasional blog post for us. The first

Pete Wernick, aka Dr. Banjo, has just added a new message board to his web site. It is designed to allow site visitors to ask Pete a question about learning to play the banjo, or about getting started playing in

David Royko has a nice feature in today's edition of The Chicago Tribune on Noam Pikelny, Chicago native and current banjo man with The John Cowan Band. Noam is also a prominent part of the upcoming Chris Thile CD, How

Pacific Ocean Bluegrass is the brainchild of Scott Gates, a 14 year old mandolin player from California's High Desert region. He assembled a band composed entirely of other California teens, and they take their bluegrass seriously. They also take exposing

The bluegrass radio options for the weekend are richer yet than what we already posted this morning. In addition to Cherryholmes on Sirius, Marty Raybon on XM, and Dale Ann Bradley on The Opry, Three Ring Circle is set to

Here's still more bluegrass radio news for the long Labor Day weekend. Sirius Satellite Radio will broadcast a two hour special this weekend, featuring reigning IBMA Entertainer Of The Year, Cherryholmes. The show is a live performance of the band

We've posted a number of times recently about Dale Ann Bradley, her new CD Catch Tomorrow, and the recent changes in her touring band. In those posts, we expressed hope that her new association with Compass Records would help her

This week's edition of Studio Special, a regular feature on Bluegrass Junction, XM Satellite Radio's full-time bluegrass channel, will include interviews and live (in-studio) performances from Marty Raybon. He and Bluegrass Junction host Kyle Cantrell will talk about Marty's new CD,

We posted earlier this month with news that Vince Gill's upcoming tour would be including some bluegrass in the show. CMT.com has a news feature posted yesterday which expands on this story a bit. We had mentioned in that earlier post

Mandolin hero and jam grass senasation Sam Bush has just launched a new web site. The URL hasn't changed (www.sambush.com), but the look and structure of his online home has been heavily modified, with some new features added. As you would