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Sam Bush is looking at August 2007 to release his debut live concert DVD, recorded at the Sierra Nevada Brewery concert hall, The Big Room, in Chico, CA. Bush fans have long understood that not matter how much you might enjoy his recordings, the full experience of his live show takes it to another level [...]
The Americana Music Association has announced the nominees for their 2007 Honors and Awards, with the winners to be announced on November 1 during their 6th Annual Americana Music Association's Honors and Awards Show in Nashville. Several of the nominees will be familiar to readers of Bluegrass Today, including Sam Bush for Instrumentalist, Uncle Earl [...]
Jazz sax man Bill Evans made waves in 2005 with the release of his Soulgrass project, merging jazz, funk and R&B grooves with bluegrass and traditional string music. It included such acoustic luminaries as B?©la Fleck (who also co-produced), Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Stuart Duncan along with Evans and fellow jazz giants John Scofield [...]
We just got a note from our friend Katy Daly at BluegrassCountry.org with word about an interview segment that will be running the rest of this month in their 24/7 bluegrass audio stream. Spring is a special time of year for Sam Bush. He celebrated his 55th birthday on April 13th AND it's baseball season! [...]
Last week we told you about a couple of ebay auctions by WDVX in Knoxville that were part of it's 2007 fundraising efforts. The first auction was for an autographed Martin DXM guitar. The second auction was an autographed Tony Rice model Santa Cruz guitar. Friday evening the third, and final, instrument went up for [...]
If you like music videos you're probably disappointed by the lack of bluegrass music videos on the music channels coming in over cable and satellite. Enter Ya'll Wire. This is a fairly new site that is still under development and assembling content, but it is live. The site features music videos for the bluegrass, country, [...]
We posted last month about a week of club dates in New York for Bill Evans' Soulgrass. This is Bill Evans the jazz sax man who has been recording and performing an interesting jazz/bluegrass fusion, not our friend Bill Evans the bluegrass banjo player and instructor. The shows will be at the fabled Blue Note [...]
The legendary New York jazz club, Blue Note, will host six days of jazz/bluegrass fusion next month. Bill Evans' Soulgrass is booked January 23-28, with Sam Bush on mandolin and Tony Trischka on banjo. They join noted jazz saxophonist Evans with Dave Wecki on drums, Richard Bona on bass and Christian Howes on fiddle. Evans' [...]
Gibson has posted a video on their web site featuring their top bluegrass endorsers playing a lively version of Jingle Bells. The All Stars consist of Earl Scruggs on banjo, Sam Bush and Ricky Skaggs on mandolins, and Phil Leadbetter on dobro. They are accompanied by Randy and Gary Scruggs on guitar and bass, respectively. [...]
Earlier this month we brought you news that Wichita Rutherford had announced his campaign for the office of Mayor of Bluegrass. We've been carefully watching his campaign, along with that of competitor Trent Dobbins. Wichita recently visited Washington to share his plans for bluegrass, should he win, with the powers that be. Neither candidate has [...]
