Music

We posted late last year when the 4th Annual American Banjo Camp began accepting registrations for this year. The three day workshop (September 8-10, 2006) offers intensive instruction in both bluegrass and old time banjo, and is held in Fort

When King Wilkie recently performed at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA, the show was professionally recorded, mixed and mastered for online distribution by the folks at Monkeyclaus, a new recording studio, independent label and music distributor in central VA.

Though the CD won't be shipping until mid-June, Sam Bush fans who make a pre-release purchase of his upcoming project, Laps In Seven, will receive a limited edition, autographed copy of the CD when it ships. Sugar Hill doesn't say

When Jimmy Bowen started working on his new CD project with his band Santa Fe, his plan was to have included his former employer on the recording. Jimmy had spent seven years working with Charlie Waller & The Country Gentlemen

We've posted before (here and here) about the multi-artist collaborative release from 2005, Moody Bluegrass - A Nashville Tribute To The Moody Blues, which was nominated for an IBMA Award as Recorded Event of the Year. The CD features such

On June 6, 2006 CMH Records will release a bluegrass record of Van Halen songs. This CD is titled Strummin' With The Devil and features David Lee Roth on a couple numbers. We've posted about this project previously. I'm told

It was just some casual web surfing that pointed me to the information about the BITS Program on the Arkansas Bluegrass web site. A follow-up query led to a lengthy discussion with Redmond Keisler about this program, which seeks to

The Holts are a family with deep roots in bluegrass music, and thirty plus years writing and performing heartfelt songs with a plainspoken blue collar message and sensibility. Starting with brothers Aubrey and Jerry Holt, who formed the celebrated

The recently updated New Releases page on the Pinecastle Records web site is almost all-Gospel this week, highlighting three new gospel projects from current Pinecastle artists. The Village Singers, long-time Gospel favorites, have a new CD, He Put The Color In

Ernie Thacker was recently hospitalized after a car accident Tuesday evening. He is in very serious condition and is still hospitalized. His family is asking for prayer. Don Rigsby reports that: Ernie was thrown from the car and broke every rib,