Music

We just heard from Eric Gibson of The Gibson Brothers, that their new Sugar Hill project, Red Letter Day, debuted on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart at #5 in its second week of release. The CD is also climbing on the

Celebration Of Life is the title of an upcoming two CD release from Skaggs Family Records to benefit the St. Jude Children"s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. It is a live recording from the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival, and

Gracie Muldoon, one of our regular correspondents and a popular Internet bluegrass cybercaster, responded to our post last week about Nothin' Fancy on MySpace.com.???She wanted to let us know that a good many bluegrass bands had pages there, and that

Jayme Stone, an adventurous young progressive banjo player from Canada, profiled last summer on the cover of Banjo NewsLetter, is now living in Boulder, CO, and has a new web site to announce. Jayme has immersed himself in the music

The John Cowan Band was recently in the studio where they recorded a number of tracks for exclusive online distribution through Sony's Connect. Sony is presenting Connect as an alternative to Apple's iTunes Music Store. The Cowan tracks should be

Wallace Lewis, one of the founding members of The Lewis Family, is back home after being hospitalized since the last week of January. He went in as a result of high fever and kidney problems, and was diagnosed with pneumonia

In bluegrass we think of banjo in terms of what Earl did with the instrument. Sometimes we consider the claw-hammer style used by old time players. But rarely would we think of banjo and associate it with the blues. But

New Road, a bluegrass gospel group based in Knoxville, TN, released their latest CD on February 14. The Message is their sixth recording as a band, and is made up primarily of songs written by the members. Attendees at last

This post is a contribution from David Hollender, a professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been keeping us updated on the way bluegrass music and traditional acoustic instruments are being presented at the school. Pete and

Details on the 3rd Annual Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy are now posted online. This three day banjo workshop weekend will be held April 21-23, 2006 near Gatlinburg, TN and is modeled in large part on the now-defunct Maryland Banjo Academy