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Sierra Hull has been invited to play during Boston's First Night festival on New Year's Eve at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music. She completed the school's two year diploma program in 2012, and has been touted as a Berklee success story ever since - and rightly so. Berklee has morphed from a jazz [...]
Here's a tough one. What do you get when you mix pretty girls with a catchy pop song, a crack bluegrass band, a summer vibe and a bunch of enthusiastic youngsters? Unless you fall down somewhere in the execution, it's a recipe for success, something that The Bankesters and Compass Records hope they have captured [...]
Here is the first of several galleries of Frank Baker's images from the recent Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival in Woodstown, NJ.
In their sneak peek video last month, Compass Records revealed that one of the tracks featured on the upcoming Bankesters CD, Love Has Wheels, is what has become known as The Cups Song. The actual song title is When I'm Gone, a tune that made its way from A.P. Carter in the rural south in [...]
We heard last week from Jon Weisberger, who caught us up on a new project he is producing for Missy Werner. "Missy was in Nashville at Ben Surratt's Rec Room studio last week to do some recording for her next album. With tracks cut with her regular band already in the can and more to [...]
24 new episodes were announced today for the 8th season of the live bluegrass and acoustic music program, Song Of The Mountains, debuting June 15 on almost 200 public television affiliates across the US. The show works in collaboration with UNC-TV in Research Triangle City in North Carolina, who serves as SOTM's presenting station. Included in this [...]
Sierra Hull is spending this early part of 2013 tracking for her third Rounder Records album. They are recording at Ben Folds' Studio, the old RCA Studio A, designed by Chet Atkins in 1964. Vance Powell is engineering. In just the few years she has been a professional touring artist, Sierra has earned the confidence of [...]
Jesse Gregory is a strong young vocalist from Maryville, TN, currently enrolled in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music program at East Tennessee State University. She has the distinction of being the first woman to declare a bluegrass major there, and would seem to have a bright future ahead of her in music as [...]
Heading into IBMA week, and our big Red Carpet pre-show event next Thursday at 7:45 p.m. (EDT), it seems like a good time to settle one of the most compelling debates in all of bluegrass music. Not acoustic v.s. electric bass, old school v.s. big tent, or even Earl v.s. Don. No... today's burning question [...]
The next installment of the Bluebird in the Bluegrass songwriter series will take place next Thursday, September 13, at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, TN. The concept behind the series is to shine a spotlight on our bluegrass tunesmiths, while also raising money for the IBMA Trust Fund which supports musicians in need. There will be [...]
