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My mailbox and inbox overflowed with music in 2013, as sure a sign as any that bluegrass is alive and well. There’s good news and bad news about that. The good news is that much of that music was very well done. That’s the bad news, too, at the moment, because I’m trying to winnow [...]
With news of their Grammy nomination fresh in the mind, the International Bluegrass Music Association's (IBMA) Emerging Artist of the Year for 2013, fans of Della Mae will be delighted to learn that the group will be making their Grand Ole Opry debut tonight, December 10. Beginning with the May release of their debut album, [...]
The 2014 Grammy nominees were announced on Friday evening. In the midst of the cavalcade of glitzy stars was news of the all-important Best Bluegrass Album. And the nominees are: It's Just A Road - The Boxcars, Mountain Home Brothers Of The Highway - Dailey & Vincent, Rounder This World Oft Can Be - Della Mae, Rounder Three Chords [...]
Here's another gallery of Gina Proulx's photos from last month's Festy 2013. Here she captures Della Mae on stage, and a bunch of Festy attendees in the park.
We would like to welcome a new correspondent, Tim Carter, who will be sending us reports and photos from this weekend's Rhythm & Roots Reunion in Bristol, TN/VA. Tim hosts The Saturday Morning Bluegrass Show on WMTN in nearby Morristown, and will be assisting at the bluegrass stage during R&RR. Starting this Friday, State Street in [...]
Here's another set of Frank Baker's photos from the 2013 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival in Woodstown, NJ.
Here's another gallery of Frank Baker's images from last weekend's 2013 August Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival. Perhaps Frank is a Della Mae fan?
Rounder has released a new video in support of Della Mae's current CD, This World Oft Can Be. It's for the song Paper Prince, and features clever stop action animation created by Trent Freeman and Adrian Murray. [jwplayer player="1" mediaid="53853"]
Music City Roots, Nashville's sole live weekly music television venue, is moving from your computer screens to your TVs. After months of negotiations, it was announced this morning that the program, which features the best of the Nashville new music scene, will debut September 13 on Nashville Public Television. Additional markets will be added throughout [...]
Like the United States, England has experienced several folk revivals over the past century, leading to a renewed interest in traditional and acoustic music, and even the establishment of an annual folk awards show by one of the United Kingdom’s most popular radio stations, BBC Radio 2. While many of England’s well-known folk artists aren’t [...]
