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FestivaLink, the online purveyor of live show downloads, has released a special package of sets from Merlefest 2010, with a portion of the sales proceeds going to benefit the Bluegrass Trust Fund. The fund is administered by the International Bluegrass Music Association, and exists to provide emergency assistance to bluegrass artists and industry professionals in [...]
Katy Daley had Woody Platt from Steep Canyon Rangers on her Bluegrass Country show this morning, and he shared some pretty cool news about their upcoming collaboration project with Steve Martin. Turns out that after five days in the studio with Steve in Asheville, the guys are heading to LA to track a song with [...]
USA Today had a nice feature on Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers in yesterday's (6/21) edition. The piece by Jerry Shriver is fairly typical of many such articles that have been published since Steve began touring in support of The Crow, his album of original songs and tunes for banjo. There are the obligatory [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers will be musical guests on this weekend's edition of A Prairie Home Companion, broadcasting live from the Fox Theater in Atlanta at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday (5/22). The Rangers have gotten a huge visibility boost this past year serving as both the opening act and backing band for Steve Martin while he [...]
Just in time for the release of their next CD, Antifogmatic, Punch Brothers will begin a series of dates with banjo picker, actor and comedia Steve Martin on June 12 at the Ravina Festival near Chicago. They have a total of five shows together over the course of this summer. Of course Martin travels with [...]
The Austin Chronicle has a piece, published on April 28, about the most recent taping of Austin City Limits the night before. Featured on the program, which will air nationally on PBS at a later date, was young Texas songstress Sarah Jarosz, who was born in Austin and raised not an hour away in Wimberley. [...]
Billboard is reporting that Steve Martin will be heading back into the studio in August to record a follow-up to The Crow, using The Steep Canyon Rangers as his accompanists. Martin and the Rangers are touring together this month in the central and southern US. Gary Graff of Billboard says that Tony Trischka will be [...]
We've written before about Ed Helms (of The Office) and his love for bluegrass music. Not content merely to be a lone banjo player in L.A., Helms decided it was time to put together a bluegrass music event in Hollywood. Partnering with a venue in West Hollywood called Largo, Helms has put together the L.A. Bluegrass [...]
We had posted back in October about Bluegrass Jamboree, a package show that toured in Germany during the month of December. This was said to be the first such show of its kind, which included sets from Beverly Smith & Carl Jones, Toy Hearts and Steep Canyon Rangers. The tour covered 15 cities in 16 [...]
Pop Matters, an online journal concerning all manner of popular culture, is out with their list of The Best Bluegrass of 2009. Compiled by Steve Leftridge and Juli Thanki - both freelance writers on country, roots and Americana music - the list represents their Top Ten bluegrass CDs from this nearly-completed year. We might all [...]
