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Cindy Baucom captured a couple of interviews recently for Knee Deep In Bluegrass at the Bluegrass All-Star Jam in Stillwater, OK. She spoke with both Michael Cleveland and Marshall Wilborn of Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, and both will be part of her two hour syndicated radio program this next two weeks. Michael will be on [...]
New bluegrass fans may not realize the impact that the Washington, DC area had on the history of our music, especially if they live far from the nation's capitol. In the 1970s and '80s a very active bluegrass scene had sprung up, with clubs and concerts supporting live music from northern Virginia to southern Maryland. [...]
Here's a New Years "good news/bad news" for you... Mountain Heart has been looking forward to their New Years Day performance on The Grand Ole Opry for some time. Just a day before their appearance comes word that fiddler Jim VanCleve is caught in a snowstorm in Pennsylvania, and isn't likely to make it back [...]
Here's another interesting package show for 2010. Dale Ann Bradley will be collaborating next year with her old friend and former employee, Michael Cleveland, when she goes on the road with his band, Flamekeeper, for select shows next year. These dates will bill as Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper with special guest Dale Ann Bradley, with [...]
WAMU's Bluegrass Country has posted a video from Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper's recent visit to their Washington studio. The guys run through a number of songs live in the studio, and chat with Bluegrass Country host Katy Daley. If you've not heard the band since Tom Adams joined up, here's your chance.
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper will be featured on this morning's (9/24) edition of Katy Daley's show on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. The guys stopped by the WAMU studios in Washington DC on their way to perform at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival this past Thursday. Katy says they recorded an hour's worth of live music and conversation, [...]
Here are three chances to catch some live bluegrass - and a live interview - via online radio Saturday (8/15). Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper will be featured in a special Saturday afternoon edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. This is a live performance program which typically airs Monday-Friday at noon from either the WDVX [...]
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper have announced that Tom Adams will be their newest member, playing guitar and singing lead vocals. Tom and Michael have a long musical association going back to Adams' time as a crackerjack, award-winning banjo player. The two of them worked together with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage in 2000, and with [...]
Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper will visit the Country Music Hall of Fame on Friday morning (6/5) for a live interview with Bill Cody of WSM. The guys will also perform a couple of tunes, starting at 9:00 a.m. The event is free and open to the public if you are in Nashville, and the rest [...]
The May/June edition of Bluegrass Music Profiles helped to fill the mail box this past Saturday morning. This latest edition of the glossy bi-monthly magazine has as its main feature a six-page, wide-ranging profile of that prolific bluegrass song writing duo Tom T. and Dixie Hall. Other bluegrass personalities interviewed by the magazine include current [...]
