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The 2007 International Folk Alliance Conference has invited two bluegrass acts to their official showcases, both female or female-fronted bands. The Claire Lynch Band and The Lovell Sisters will represent bluegrass music at the conference, held in Memphis, TN February 21-15, 2007 at The Cook Convention Center and The Marriott Convention Center Hotel. Unlike the [...]
The July 2007 Alaska Bluegrass Cruise looks to be a great event. The line up of artists participating this year by performing and teaching workshops is sure to make it a success. Blue Highway, The Claire Lynch Band, and The Infamous Stringdusters will all be performing. The various band members will also be teaching workshops [...]
The November/December issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles is in the mail, with Rhonda Vincent on the cover. Publishers Kevin and Lori Kerfoot tell us that this is their first Women In Bluegrass edition - an "all girls issue" - something they plan to make into an annual project at BMP. In addition to the cover [...]
Listen now: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/ep50_claire_lynch.mp3] (IE users click to activate) Our guest on this episode of The GrassCast is Claire Lynch. In the interview John and Claire discuss her history in bluegrass music, talk about her band members, and discuss her newest CD, New Day. The discussion leads to previewing three of the tracks off the CD, [...]
This past Sunday's edition of The Huntsville Times included a lengthy feature on Claire Lynch. She is a native of the Huntsville, AL area, where she lives still today. Occasioned by the release of her latest CD, New Day, the article by Times writer Ryan Hickman offers a very personal glimpse into Claire's reasons for [...]
Claire Lynch will join Gracie Muldoon this afternoon for an interview on Muldoon In The Afternoon on worldwidebluegrass.com. Her show runs from 4:00-6:00 in the afternoon. Worldwidebluegrass.com is streamed over the internet and listeners can choose WinAmp, Windows Media or Real Media on either a dial up or broadband connection (128K or 32K). Gracie will [...]
Claire Lynch and her fine band spent an hour in the studio with XM Satellite Radio's Kyle Cantrell, recording an interview and some live performance for this week's edition of Kyle's Studio Series program. The show runs on XM's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14), and debuts each Friday at 8:00 a.m., with a number of rebroadcasts [...]
We mentioned last week that Claire Lynch's CD, New Day, was due for release on Rounder on March 28. We also mentioned at that time that no audio samples were yet available online. They are now up on the Rounder web site, with a snippet from each of the 12 tracks accessible in either Windows [...]
New Day is the title of the upcoming CD from Claire Lynch - her fifth for Rounder Records - and her new band, the appropriately named Claire Lynch Band. The band includes Jim Hurst on guitar, David Harvey on mandolin, and Missy Raines on bass. Guest appearances on the CD were made by Stuart Duncan [...]
The popular and acclaimed NashCamp has announced their Music Camps for 2006, with three, week-long events during the summer, and a weekend banjo retreat in the fall. First up is two weeks of bluegrass instruction, aptly named Bluegrass Weeks. Each of the two, one-week sessions feature well-known bluegrass performers as instructors, with a mix of [...]
