Billy Blue Records has released a music video for their latest single from Australian songbird Kristy Cox and her current album Shades of Blue, her first with the label. It's for Good Morning Moon, written by producer Jerry Salley and Laura Leigh Jones,
Farm Bureau Insurance in Tennessee has launched a new television advertising campaign featuring bluegrass music and a number of noted artists. It's for their Medicare Educator program, and started running yesterday in many Tennessee markets. Irene Kelley was cast as the
On May 20, The IBMA Foundation drew a winner in their 2nd annual Strings for Dreams Bluegrass Raffle to raise funds for their various charitable and educational efforts on behalf of bluegrass music. This year's raffle was for a 2010 Huber
The Grand Master Fiddler Championship, held annually in Nashville over the Labor Day weekend, has announced that submissions are now open for their Matthew Thomas Lin Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship, now in its second year, was created to honor the memory
Independent Canadian bluegrass artists The Slocan Ramblers have released a music video for one of the songs on their upcoming album, Up the Hill and Through the Fog. It's for I Don't Know, an offbeat sort of love song from banjo
Becky Buller has done it again. Known for her cross-genre musical experimentation with her Becky Buller Band, she has now reached even further across the aisle with a bluegrass version of We Will Rock You, perhaps the most anthemic rock
For nearly four decades banjoist Bill Evans has been offering a presentation called The Banjo in America, which condenses the 250 year history of our beloved banjo into a concert-length event. During these shows, which are part performance, part demonstration, and
Last night, Punch Brothers were the musical guests on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS television. They performed Any Old Time from their current project, Hell On Church Street, a Punchy reimagining and tribute to Tony Rice's landmark album,
Kentucky bluegrass artist Don Rigsby is set to appear on this Sunday's American Idol broadcast, in support of a young man he knows back home, Noah Thompson, who is a finalist in this season's competition. Noah is a country singer from
Bell Buckle Records has released a single from Lone Star stater Bobby Giles and his band, Texas Gales. Produced in Nashville by Jim VanCleve of The Appalachian Road Show, it shows Bobby as both singer and songwriter with a sound
