Music

For those of you desiring to learn old-time banjo, or frailing banjo as it's sometimes called, here is a resource you might want to check out. Patrick Costello has a book available called The How and the Tao of Old

IBMA and the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association will jointly host a Bluegrass In The Schools workshop in Minneapolis, MN early in November. It will be held in conjunction with the Harvest Jamboree festival (11/3-4), and is designed to

We just got word that Chris Thile is shooting a music video today in New York in support of the new How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD. It's for the song, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground,

The folks at Bluegrass Guide will host the first Songwriter Chat session of their new season this evening (10/17). It will be with Eric and Leigh Gibson, and take place at 8:00 p.m. (EDT). Rick Lang of Haley Anna Music

Brad Davis called me the other afternoon just to say hi, but as always I asked him what he had been up to. Brad is a busy guy. He produces a TV show, does his own touring, performs with Earl

Country music superstars Alabama have a new CD set for release on October 24, their first in more than five years. It will be a Gospel project, entitled Songs Of Inspiration, and will contain both familiar Gospel favoriates like Old

The recipients of this year's Charlie Derrington Memorial Scholarship to attend the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend have been announced. Four young musicians (aged 13-24) were selected, each of whom will attend the three day instructional weekend with their full tuition, accommodations

We had mentioned Rhonda Vincent's new Christmas recording, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, when it was announced during the summer. The CD is set to be released tomorrow (10/17), and Rounder has audio samples from all 12 tracks up on

We posted back in August about Dale Ann Bradley's newest release, Catch Tomorrow, when we first received a promo copy. The hope we expressed at the time was that now, at long last, this extremely talented vocalist and expressive song stylist

It's a fair bet that many of our US readers were, at one point in their life, readers of the popular children's books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. If not, odds are that they watched episodes of the equally popular television