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Here’s the fourth report from C.J. Lewandowski on the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys‘ 2016 European tour. Full tour details can be found online. From Johan's home in Sweden, we loaded up, on the 24th, and crossed that big ol' bridge for Copenhagen. Once we hit Denmark land, due south was the direction we headed. All the way to the southern [...]
Gary B. Reid has been given the Best Discography award by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for his 2015 release, The Music of the Stanley Brothers, published by the University of Illinois Press. The award was given in the Association's Best Historical Research in Recorded Country Music category. The Association has been active since 1966, describing themselves as [...]
Wilson Pickins Bluegrass Promotions in Westminster, SC has announced the addition of Mike Bentley & Cumberland Gap Connection to their roster. This fast-growing agency, managed by Melanie Wilson, has been extremely aggressive in 2016 and is making quite a name for themselves in bluegrass. The Kentucky-based band features Bentley on guitar and lead vocals, Rod Smith [...]
The Surry Arts Council, located in Mount Airy, NC, has announced an aggressive music series as part of their ongoing Visit Mayberry campaign. Billed as Blue Ridge & Beyond, the concerts will be held in the town's historic Earle Theatre and will features performances from some of the top acts in bluegrass. Shows start later this [...]
Sweden's Original Five has a clever new music video to publicize the impending release of their third album, Happy Landing, due November 25 on Rootsy Records. The song is clever as well, written by guitarist and vocalist Jonas Spahn, called Tomorrow's Just Another Night Away. Jonas is joined by Dan Englund on bass, Johan Malmberg on banjo and fiddle, Daniel Olson on [...]
This will be my last column before the presidential race is all over, which means that one week from today, we in the bluegrass community can all go back to liking each other again. Back in the early days of this election, which seems like years ago now (probably because it was), Bluegrass Today ran [...]
Thanks to Tom Gray, former bassist with both The Country Gentlemen and Seldom Scene, who shared the news earlier today on Facebook, we can all share in celebrating the 45th Anniversary of one of the most celebrated bands in the history of bluegrass. That is Seldom Scene, who played their first show on November 1, [...]
East Of Monroe is a new bluegrass group based in Virginia and Maryland, made up of experienced musicians who have gotten together to focus on original music written primarily within the group. Members include Billy Bud on bass, Gary Alan Ferguson on lead guitar, Jackie Frost on rhythm guitar, Lisa Kay Howard Hughes on mandolin, Wally Hughes [...]
This evening at 8:00 p.m., East Tennessee State University and their bluegrass Pride Band are set to make history. At least in the bluegrass world. The Departments of Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies and Mass Communications will jointly present an online concert using the Facebook Live video broadcasting system. But unlike most such [...]
Ear Trumpet Labs, a boutique microphone manufacturer in Portland, OR, has introduced their latest creation: a new microphone for upright bass players. One of the quirks of Ear Trumpet's company culture is that all of their products carry a woman's name instead of a model number, and this newest is called Nadine. She was designed [...]
