The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program at East Tennessee State University is requesting applications for adjunct instructors for many of the instruments taught in the program. Like most universities, the school supplements its full-time faculty with adjuncts who may teach only one or two days each week, primarily offering private lessons, traditional classes, [...]
The Department of Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University has announced the addition of two new faculty members familiar to the bluegrass and old time community. Jon Weisberger will come on board as an adjunct, serving as a bass instructor at the school. He had played bass in and around [...]
East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN, is seeking a Lecturer in Old Time music for the Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program in their Department of Appalachian Studies. The program has earned international acclaim for preparing young people for careers in professional music, songwriting, and music industry work. Each semester generally finds [...]
Bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang has announced that the recipient of the 1st annual Rick Lang Music Scholarship is Alexis Hamilton-Mele. As a writer, Rick has had his songs recorded by dozens of bluegrass acts, from Junior Sisk to IIIrd Tyme Out, Donna Ulisse to Ralph Stanley II, and has six albums of his material recorded [...]
Greg Fields, a popular instructor in the Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, and Country music program at East Tennessee State University, apparently suffered a stroke on December 27. According to his wife, Mary Anne, he was taken from home to the ER by ambulance, and has been hospitalized in Johnson City since last Thursday. An immediate [...]
The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, who have hosted the annual Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival since 1972, have recently donated their entire collection of audio recordings to the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. These are board tapes of all the performances on stage at the festival [...]
Noted bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang, and his wife, Wendy, have endowed a scholarship for students in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University who have an interest in songwriting. Their gift will allow for an annual award of roughly $2,000 to some deserving student. Rick has been involved [...]
2018 marks the 35th anniversary of Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, & Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University. To celebrate the occasion, the program is holding its first awards dinner this evening at the Millennium Center in Johnson City, TN. Program founder Jack Tottle and longtime supporter Tim White will be the recipients of [...]
Reecently, the folks at Saga Musical Instruments and an anonymous local donor arranged for a pair of Blueridge guitars to be given to students enrolled in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. Students were invited to apply to receive the guitars, explaining in an essay why it [...]
The fall semester is drawing to a close for college students all over the US, and for those in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program, that means it's time for final performances. To remind everyone in east Tennessee to come out and enjoy these shows, director Dan Boner and the ETSU [...]
The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program at East Tennessee State University is requesting applications for adjunct instructors for many of the instruments taught in the program. Like most universities, the school supplements its full-time faculty with adjuncts who may teach only one or two days each week, primarily offering private lessons, traditional classes, [...] 
Bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang has announced that the recipient of the 1st annual Rick Lang Music Scholarship is Alexis Hamilton-Mele. As a writer, Rick has had his songs recorded by dozens of bluegrass acts, from Junior Sisk to IIIrd Tyme Out, Donna Ulisse to Ralph Stanley II, and has six albums of his material recorded [...] 
Greg Fields, a popular instructor in the Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, and Country music program at East Tennessee State University, apparently suffered a stroke on December 27. According to his wife, Mary Anne, he was taken from home to the ER by ambulance, and has been hospitalized in Johnson City since last Thursday. An immediate [...] 
The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, who have hosted the annual Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival since 1972, have recently donated their entire collection of audio recordings to the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. These are board tapes of all the performances on stage at the festival [...] 
Noted bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang, and his wife, Wendy, have endowed a scholarship for students in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University who have an interest in songwriting. Their gift will allow for an annual award of roughly $2,000 to some deserving student. Rick has been involved [...] 
2018 marks the 35th anniversary of Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, & Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University. To celebrate the occasion, the program is holding its first awards dinner this evening at the Millennium Center in Johnson City, TN. Program founder Jack Tottle and longtime supporter Tim White will be the recipients of [...] 
Reecently, the folks at Saga Musical Instruments and an anonymous local donor arranged for a pair of Blueridge guitars to be given to students enrolled in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. Students were invited to apply to receive the guitars, explaining in an essay why it [...] 
The fall semester is drawing to a close for college students all over the US, and for those in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program, that means it's time for final performances. To remind everyone in east Tennessee to come out and enjoy these shows, director Dan Boner and the ETSU [...] 