Music

We told you over the weekend about the Facebook challenge issued by Cia Cherryholmes. She dared Josh Shilling to lock horns with her in a contest to see who could generate the most Facebook friends in 24 hours. Josh accepted reluctantly,

Donnie Carver, long time traveling sound man with IIIrd Tyme Out, was hospitalized near his home in North Carolina last week after suffering a heart attack. He suffered a second while in the hospital and his doctors had tentatively planned

Cherryholmes is starting the new year working on a new CD for Skaggs Family Records. Banjo player Cia Cherryholmes tells us that they will get started in the studio this week, working once again with Ben Isaacs producing. "It's looking like it's

Here's a New Years "good news/bad news" for you... Mountain Heart has been looking forward to their New Years Day performance on The Grand Ole Opry for some time. Just a day before their appearance comes word that fiddler Jim VanCleve

Bobby Osborne will be starting out the new year with a new label and plans for two new CD releases. He has signed with Rural Rhythm Records and is already hard at work on his first release with the California-based record

We've written previously about the new American Roots Music Program at The Berklee College of Music in Boston, which got its official kickoff earlier this month. Mark O'Connor spent a week on campus conducting workshops, master classes and interacting with

J.D. Crowe & The New South has two new members to announce for 2010. Kyle Perkins has come aboard to fill the bass spot recently vacated by John Bowman (now playing fiddle with The Boxcars). Just 24 years old, Kyle had

We also heard this week from Cadillac Sky with a concise overview of the band's activities and accomplishments of late, and news of their individual activities in 2010 before they reassemble to tour in the spring. "On Dec. 3rd, it was

We posted last week with news about The Chapmans signing with Compass Records. At that time, we promised some more details on their next CD soon, and Jeremy Chapman has provided us with just that... "Grown Up (A Revisionist History) is

Don Rigsby will be starting off the new year with a new focus in his career. This award-winning singer and mandolinist had spent the past 8 years as the Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University