Music

Pinecastle Records has announced that a new Larry Stephenson CD will be released in August. The new release, Life Stories, will contain two new songs from Tom T. and Dixie Hall, including one with the intriguing title, Knoxville Boy. Perhaps

Our friend Donica Christensen at Hollerback PR sent us some photos and a recap of Jim VanCleve's CD release party on Tuesday night at The Station Inn in Nashville. Jim was celebrating the official release of his debut solo project,

We posted last week on a Bluegrass In The Schools program in Utah featuring Special Consensus which was previewed by the Salt Lake Tribune. Dan Nailen, the reporter who wrote the pre-event overview, also attended the workshop and concert and

Skaggs Family Records has just announced they have signed the Ft. Worth-based bluegrass band Cadillac Sky. The band consists of Bryan Simpson (mandolin, fiddle, vocals), Matt Menefee (banjo), Mike Jump (guitar, vocals), Ross Holmes (fiddle, vocals), and Matt Blaize (upright

We have posted many times about the free ezine published by Angie Sumpter for new banjo pickers getting started later in life. The online publication, called Silver Strings, has been offered at no cost via Angie's web site since late

Noted luthier John Condino will be offering a ten day course on mandolin building later this month. The course runs from May 22 through June 3, but classes will actually be held 5/22-26, and again from 5/30-6/3 at the Oregon

Mountain Heart's celebrated young fiddler, Jim Van Cleve, steps out today with his first solo release. No Apologies is the title of his debut project on the Rural Rhythm label, where he showcases his well-established prowess as a fiddle man,

The next release from The Del McCoury Band, The Promised Land, is set for release on June 13, 2006. This will be the first all-Gospel project in Del's long bluegrass career, and his third for his own label, McCoury Music.

The third video from Alison Krauss & Union Station's Lonely Runs Both Ways CD is set to be released this week on CMT's Top Twenty Countdown show. This new video is for If I Didn't Know Any Better, and the

Heather Berry's new CD, which we had mentioned once previously, is now available. Entitled, To A Dove, it was recently released on Tom T. and Dixie Hall's Blue Circle Records label and features a number of Hall original songs and