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Larry Keel & Natural Bridge have announced a number of shows in early December featuring very special guest Tony Rice. Larry and Tony have performed together many times, and you can be sure that there will be some fiery flatpicking at

Last Friday we shared news about a Nickel Creek DVD which was to have been shot during the last two shows on their Farewell (For Now) tour at The Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. The folks at Sugar Hill were delighted when

Alison Krauss & Union Station will perform on tonight's (11/7) Country Music Association Awards show, televised in the US on ABC at 8:00 p.m. (EST). For AKUS fans, this may be the last chance you'll have to see them for some

The latest DVD release from Flatpicking Guitar is Volume 4 in Brad Davis' Flatpick Jam series. Like the three that preceded it, this DVD is a play-along video where Brad demonstrates flatpicking solos for 11 tunes, and then plays each

One of the bands I did not get to catch at IBMA was The Farewell Drifters. I did, however, just receive a copy of their debut CD, Sweet Summer Breeze, and am now doubly sorry that I didn't get to

Next weekend, guitar and mandolin enthusiasts in the Cincinnati area will have a chance to study with Clay Hess and Rick Hayes. Hess is the new guitarist with Mountain Heart, and had previously worked with both Ricky Skaggs and Mark Newton.

The accompanying photo shows Lost and Found with their newest member. And no... we don't mean the diminutive guitarist on the far right. The photo comes from the Blue Ridge Muse blog, and was taken by Doug Thompson. It shows the

We caught up with Adam Steffey on Friday, and he shared some details on the upcoming - and highly-anticipated - debut recording from The Dan Tyminski Band. Adam told us that they would be getting together in Nashville on November 18

Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, shares this review. Claire Lynch has recorded five CDs for the Rounder label previously. The latest, Crowd Favorites (Rounder 0600), consists of several songs in a 'best of' collection that in typical fashion these

This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. I'm happy to report that both bluegrass representatives made it