Music

Perennial bluegrass Gospel favorites, The Lewis Family, have released their latest recording, Flyin' High. Audio samples are available and online ordering is enabled from the Lewis Family web site. The site also mentions that Miggie Lewis is scheduled for knee replacement

Sorry I missed this while I was away last week... Billboard and Reuters are reporting that country music superstar Alan Jackson is at work on a bluegrass album, produced by Alison Krauss, which is expected to be released in September of

The Del McCoury Band has posted 4 songs from their upcoming gospel release, The Promised Land, on their myspace page. Three of them you can only listen to, but one is available for download. They've also released a little information

Among the things we are particularly proud to publicize and encourage on Bluegrass Today are the efforts of non-US bands and musicians who perform and record bluegrass music. Living as we do in the southeastern United States where this music

We just received word that Larry Cordle underwent surgery for prostate cancer with which he was recently diagnosed. The surgery is being reported as successful and he is recovering nicely. Doctors detected the cancer during a routine physical and say

The 8th annual Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp will offer two weeks of fiddle and traditional music instruction in a variety of styles between August 6-20, 2006. The camp is broken into two, seven day sessions (6-13, 13-20) with instruction in

We just received another another update on Ernie Thackers health. This one came from David Russell. You can find the other posts about this here. Saturday, May 14, 2006 An update from the family Ernie's condition is improving. He is still listed in

We recently received another bit of interesting news from Dan Miller at Flatpicking Guitar Magazine, this time about a new "part time" band made up of some fiery newgrass super pickers performing sporadically as Greenbroke. Four talented bluegrass veterans--Dennis Caplinger (banjo

Nice Life - The Bluegrass Tribute to Bon Jovi, is the title of the latest edition of CMH Records' popular series of bluegrass cover projects is out today. Like the many others CMH has released, this one features grassified versions

Information on the 2006 Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend is now available on the RBW web site. The event will be held November 10-12 in Roanoke, VA and offers three days of intensive instruction in the fine points of playing bluegrass music. This