Music

The Dixie Bee-Liners will soon be releasing a video of their single Heavy. The song, which appears on the Bee-Liners' recent release Susanville, heavily features mountain dulcimer and fiddle. Director Chris Connor and the band shot the video on location in

Attention SPBGMA-bound mandolinists and tenor singers. Patrick McAvinue, who plays fiddle with Audie Blaylock & Redline, tells us that they are hunting a new bandmate at SPBGMA next weekend in Nashville. Darrell Webb had been handling the mandolin and tenor spot

Dailey & Vincent have announced the hiring of Christian Davis to sing bass and play a second guitar in the band, starting this weekend (1/22). Christian has been singing since he was a young boy, working with a number of southern

Last night (1/20), country star Dierks Bentley was the special guest with The Infamous Stringdusters at Nashville's Station Inn. Bentley knocked around the Nashville bluegrass scene for a number of years before hitting it big, and has remained friends with

David Via is one of those guys whose name bluegrass fans may recognize, but without necessarily being familiar with his music. Unless you follow the jamgrass scene, where Via is a hero, or the cult of acoustic/bluegrass songwriters where he

Another of the many CDs that have crossed the threshold this month comes from Ohioan Missy Werner. I wasn't familiar with her music prior to receiving this copy of Drifting and Dreaming, but when I saw that Dwight McCall had

Frank Solivan II and his band, Dirty Kitchen, are in Nashville this week, recording a new CD at Brent Truitt's studio. From the sound of it, the guys are having a great time recording, and we're excited to hear the

South Plains College in Levelland, TX has announced that Jim Moratto has joined their bluegrass faculty as an Instructor in Commercial Music. South Plains offers an associate degree in the Commercial Music program, which includes a specialty in bluegrass music. Bluegrass

Homespun Tapes has released a new banjo DVD from Pete Wernick, aka, Dr Banjo. Following up on his How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos video, the new project is How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos 2. The

The Bristol Herald Courier, which covers Bristol Tennessee and Virginia, plus the nearby cities of Johnson City and Jonesborough, TN, had a piece last Monday about the changing of the guard at East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass, Old Time &