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This post is a contribution from David Hollender, Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Dave has been a member of the ensemble department for several years, and teaching upright bass, but now also teaches banjo for students following the Acoustic String Principal, where banjo, mandolin, acoustic guitar or fiddle players can pursue [...]
If you like music videos you're probably disappointed by the lack of bluegrass music videos on the music channels coming in over cable and satellite. Enter Ya'll Wire. This is a fairly new site that is still under development and assembling content, but it is live. The site features music videos for the bluegrass, country, [...]
Mandolin Cafe points us to an interesting interview with Chris Thile posted on the The Cornell Daily Sun website. The interview is a discussion with Chris about the struggles of a young musician, albeit with a great deal of experience, stretching and reaching trying to find his own unique voice. Chris articulates quite nicely his [...]
Chris Thile was in London on Monday for the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where he was nominated for Musician Of The Year. He won't be coming home empty-handed, as his name was called to accept the trophy. Here's how he is described in the official BBC press release: The sole American on this [...]
The February issue of the UK based magazine Acoustic, features an interview with mandolin master Chris Thile. Chris in nominated for a BBC Folk Award for Musician of the Year. The article is basically an interview where Chris shares his take on playing live music centered around the mandolin. The awards show for the 2007 [...]
The new (Jan/Feb '07) issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles is out, featuring a cover story on J.D. Crowe & The New South. Each member of the band is interviewed, and J.D. shares his thoughts about their latest release, Lefty's Old Guitar. A sample from the New South article can be read on the BMP web [...]
We posted last week that the music video for Chris Thile's Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground was available on CMT.com. We also mentioned that Mac users were out of luck when it came to accessing CMT's video player, and that Sugar Hill was likely to post the video on its YouTube page before long. [...]
AT&T's blue room has posted a set of online videos of Chris Thile and How To Grow A Band performing live in their studio. Three songs from his How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD are included - Watch 'at Breakdown, Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground and the title track - plus [...]
The Chris Thile music video we teased about in October has been released, and can be viewed on CMT.com. It's for the song Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground from his How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD. The flash player utilized by CMT requires access to Windows DRM, so Mac users are [...]
We posted earlier this week that Mountain Heart fiddler Jim VanCleve had recently celebrated the birth of his first child, Ryaan. When the nominations were announced yesterday morning for the 49th Grammy Awards, it turned out that Jim has something else to crow about. The song, Nature Of The Beast from his debut CD release, [...]
