Music

You may not be familiar with a band named G2, but we suspect that you may be before long. They are five young Swedish blugrass musicians, who teamed up in October 2005 with a plan to form a new, contemporary

Pacific Ocean Bluegrass is the brainchild of Scott Gates, a 14 year old mandolin player from California's High Desert region. He assembled a band composed entirely of other California teens, and they take their bluegrass seriously. They also take exposing

The bluegrass radio options for the weekend are richer yet than what we already posted this morning. In addition to Cherryholmes on Sirius, Marty Raybon on XM, and Dale Ann Bradley on The Opry, Three Ring Circle is set to

Here's still more bluegrass radio news for the long Labor Day weekend. Sirius Satellite Radio will broadcast a two hour special this weekend, featuring reigning IBMA Entertainer Of The Year, Cherryholmes. The show is a live performance of the band

This week's edition of Studio Special, a regular feature on Bluegrass Junction, XM Satellite Radio's full-time bluegrass channel, will include interviews and live (in-studio) performances from Marty Raybon. He and Bluegrass Junction host Kyle Cantrell will talk about Marty's new CD,

Copper Creek Records has a new compilation project, designed to showcase a wide assortment of artists and music which have been featured on Copper Creek releases over the past 28 years. Entitled Blockbuster Bluegrass, it includes two CDs with 25

Our GrassCast interview with Rhonda Vincent earlier this week included some discussion of her upcoming Christmas CD, due in mid-October on Rounder. Some details about the project, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, are now up on the Rounder web site. No

We posted earlier this month with news that Vince Gill's upcoming tour would be including some bluegrass in the show. CMT.com has a news feature posted yesterday which expands on this story a bit. We had mentioned in that earlier post

Mandolin hero and jam grass senasation Sam Bush has just launched a new web site. The URL hasn't changed (www.sambush.com), but the look and structure of his online home has been heavily modified, with some new features added. As you would

We told you last week that the new IIIrd Tyme Out CD, Round III at the MAC, was due for release in a matter of days. It has made its debut on the band's web site, with audio samples and