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Comedian Steve Martin had the opportunity on Tuesday night (11/10) to demonstrate to a British audience that he is a serious musician, and according to Wednesday’s review of his performance in the Guardian national newspaper he succeeded. Martin was on British TV (BBC2) on Tuesday night also. He performed on Later Live, and will be [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that Steve Martin will co-host this year's (82nd) Academy Awards (otherwise known as the Oscars). Martin has been getting a lot of press recently for his banjo playing. He was involved with the 2009 IBMA Awards Show in Nashville, performing with the Steep Canyon Rangers. [...]
Bluegrass Jamboree is the name attached to a two-week road show in Germany set for December. Headlining is Steep Canyon Rangers, who will be fresh off their US tour with Steve Martin, and hawking their newly-released CD, Deep In The Shade. Rounding out the show will be US old timers Beverly Smith & Carl Jones, [...]
Steve Martin may not have taken home the IBMA Banjo Player of the Year Award, but he is taking his own Deering Goodtime Banjo model with him on the road this month. Deering has created a special headstock brand for these banjos, which will only be offered for sale at Martin's live appearances with Steep [...]
Video has been posted of Steve Martin and Steep Canyon Rangers performing last night (10/5) on The Late Show with David Letterman. The song is Saga Of The Old West, one Martin wrote, which is included on his current banjo CD, The Crow. He also performed it with the Rangers on the IBMA Awards Show [...]
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers will be musical guests on tonight's (10/5) edition of The Late Show with David Letterman. The show airs on CBS at 11:35 p.m. (ET/PT). They are on tour together throughout October to promote Martin's banjo CD, The Crow, plus the new Rebel release from SCR, Deep In The [...]
Appearances have just been announced for Steve Martin with The Steep Canyon Rangers on The Late Show with David Letterman on October 5, and The View on the 6th. They are on the road with Martin in support of his banjo album, , The Crow. Here's the Rangers talking about how they hooked up with [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers have a guest spot on tonight's (9/25) Grand Ole Opry broadcast. It will be their second visit to the Opry stage, and banjo picker and primary songwriter Graham Sharp tells us that they will be highlighting material from their upcoming album, Deep In The Shade, due from Rebel on October 6. "We'll [...]
Another new CD due this fall that has caught my attention is Deep In The Shade, the third Rebel release from Steep Canyon Rangers. The project reunites the band with producer Ronnie Bowman and engineer Wyatt Rice with whom they collaborated on their 2007 album, Lovin' Pretty Women. Steep Canyon guitarist and lead vocalist Woody [...]
Steve Martin will appear on the season finale of A Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, June 27. As has often been the case, he will be performing with Steep Canyon Rangers. Hosted as usual by Garrison Keillor the program will be broadcast live from The Koussevitzky Music Shed at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusetts. Also appearing [...]
