Music

We heard this morning from Greg Cahill, banjo player, founder and leader of Special Consensus - Special C to their close friends. Greg also serves as the Board Chair of the International Bluegrass Music Association. He sent along word of some

Chris Pandolfi has released the first of what we presume will be several videos from The Infamous Stringdusters' recently-concluded tour of the Northeastern US. It follows the guys on the road, on the stage and in the van. Great fun...

When we last spoke with Raymond McLain about the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University, they were in the process of seeking full accreditation to offer a four year Bachelor of Arts degree. McLain

Casey Henry has agreed to send us occasional updates from The American Revival Tour, where she is performing with Dixie Bee-Liners. Also on the tour are Sierra Hull & Highway 111 and headliners Uncle Earl. Here is Casey’s report. Do you remember

Here's another interesting package show for 2010. Dale Ann Bradley will be collaborating next year with her old friend and former employee, Michael Cleveland, when she goes on the road with his band, Flamekeeper, for select shows next year. These dates

Country crooner Dierks Bentley tells Vernell Hackett of The Boot that he plans to record a bluegrass album during 2010. Bentley has a long history of including bluegrass music on his chart-topping releases, and has collaborated several times with The Grascals

Cindy Baucom sent along a number of photos from this past weekend's debut North Carolina Banjo Clinic in Burnsville, NC. She was in attendance with her husband, Terry Baucom, and sent us this report. "Terry was an instructor, along with Tom Adams,

Sugar Hill Records has just released a download-only album in iTunes which consists of the Top 50 tracks from their deep catalog of bluegrass and Americana music. Members of the Sugar Hill staff chose the songs for this collection, which

Junior Sisk is not known as the most talkative artist in bluegrass music, but he did record a podcast interview last week for Roanoke.com, the online home of my hometown newspaper, The Roanoke Times. Junior had a show nearby and spoke

Wired magazine's Epicenter blog recently ran a story about an impending time bomb written into the Copyright Act of 1976. Their explanation of the legislation is that copyrights for sound recordings are soon going to be up for grabs. If an artist