Music

The East Tennessean, the student paper for East Tennessee State University, is reporting that the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at the school is hoping to expand from a minor in the Appalachian Studies department to a four

This past Friday, Special Consensus spent the day in Nashville doing radio spots and celebrating the release of their latest CD. Fearless leader Greg Cahill sent along this report. The Station Inn in Nashville was the site for The Special C

Fiddler Casey Driessen has presented to the music world as something of a stylistic enigma. As a fiddler he is equally well trained in the bluegrass and old time traditions, and he has a music degree from The Berklee College

John Miller, who has most recently been playing mandolin and singing tenor with Junior Sisk & Rambler's Choice, tells us that he is leaving the group. No word yet about a replacement. John says that his future plans are in flux,

Jeff & Shari Easter, the Lewis Family and the Easter Brothers were the proud winners of both Dove Awards in the bluegrass category at a ceremony at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, on Thursday evening (4/23). They took the

The new bluegrass/acoustic CD from Marty Raybon, This That & The Other, is now available. It was recorded with his band, Full Circle, which features Daniel Grindstaff on banjo and guitar, Chris Davis on fiddle and mandolin, Glen Gibson on resophonic

Berklee Today, the quarterly alumni magazine of The Berklee College Of Music, has a feature on the school's embrace of country, bluegrass and Americana music as part of their instructional program. Written by Christopher John Treacy, and entitled Out Of The

When I started learning to play bluegrass music as a teenager in the mid-1970s, the bluegrass mecca was the Washington, DC area. Seldom Scene and The Country Gentlemen were headquartered there, both considered wildly progressive by the traditionalists of that

It's been ten years since the Sam Bush model Gibson mandolin was introduced to market. During that time, it has been a strong seller for Gibson, and the impetus for them to create limited edition artist models for a number of

Josh Miller, banjo picker with NewFound Road, and his wife Jessie are celebrating the birth of their first child. Joshua Andrew Miller was born Monday morning (4/20), weighing in at 9 lbs 14 oz. We'll post a photo as soon as