Music

Mel Bay has a new book of mandolin transcriptions from virtuoso player Mike Marshall. Entitled The Mike Marshall Collection, the book contains 11 of Mike's pieces, transcribed from his recordings. Each tune is shown in both tab and standard notation, including

The Banjo Lounge is hosting another of their periodic online banjo workshops on February 11. This one will be conducted by Bill Evans, and will focus on playing bluegrass banjo accompaniment, or backup. Bill has two popular instructional DVDs about banjo

Mountain Heart unveils their new sound this weekend on The Grand Ole Opry, introducing guitarist/vocalist Josh Shilling for the first time on last night's Friday Opry, and performing again tonight on the Opry radio broadcast. They got a call back from

We've been told to expect an announcement in the next few days regarding a new hire for Mountain Heart. This would be to fill the guitar/vocal spot vacated recently by Steve Gulley, who left to help form GrassTowne. The band has

Our friends over at The European Bluegrass Blog have a post up about a pair of new releases from Slovakia. They are Light In The Storm from The Tom?°?° Pe?°ko Band, and Kvapky rosy from Bluegrass Time. Both feature Tom?°?° Pe?°ko

This post is a contribution from Richard Thompson, a founding member of the British Bluegrass Music Association, and a semi-regular correspondent and contributor for Bluegrass Today. He is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication

Veteran bluegrass performer and instructor Orrin Star will be continuing his Fisrt Saturday Mandolin Workshops in Cheverly, MD, on January 6th and on February 3rd. He will also be bringing his duo (with DC-area guitarist/singer John Seebach) to the Kennedy

The Old Road To Jerusalem is the new CD from Eric Uglum, and his two talented stepsons, Christian and Austin Ward. It is just now released on Backcountry Records, with audio samples available online. Eric plays the guitar and mandolin,

The Dalton Little Theatre in Dalton, GA will host Live at the Firehouse, a songwriter showcase on January 26-27, 2007. The theatre is located in a renovated firehouse, which was built during the early 1900s. Invited participants include: Darin Aldridge,

And then they were five... Alan Bibey called to let us know that Grasstowne has finished the year with a full complement of pickers, having just brought Lee Sawyer on to play bass. He joins Alan on mandolin, Steve Gulley on