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If it seems like we are writing quite a bit about Steve Martin and his banjo CD, The Crow, quite a bit of late, it's only because the wider entertainment media is as well. Of course we'll always cover what's happening in and around the bluegrass world, and it certainly is a pleasant situation to [...]
Jacket Copy, the Los Angeles Times books blog, carried a review today on Steve Martin's show last night (5/11) with Steep Canyon Rangers in L.A. Why the books blog, you may ask? Well, the show was a benefit for the L.A. Library, and part of their ALOUD series of lectures and arts presentations. The event [...]
After supporting one bluegrass music veteran on several dates recently, Rebel recording artists Steep Canyon Rangers will be appearing with banjo player-cum-actor Steve Martin on the west coast at Club Nokia in Los Angeles next Monday, May 11. The show to benefit Los Angeles Public Library begins at 8:00pm. Later in the month they will [...]
Dennis Jones with WNCW in Spindale, NC sent along an advance copy of Goin' Across The Mountain Live - Volume 3, which will be offered as a premium for station supporters in 2009. The 15 tracks were all recorded and broadcast live during episodes of Goin' Across The Mountain, which airs on WNCW every Saturday [...]
Yesterday we told you about the new CD, Let's Do Something, from Bill Evans and Megan Lynch. The duo is performing live on WDVX Blue Plate Special today at 12 noon EST. The show will also include the Steep Canyon Rangers. If you're in the Knoxville area you can see the show live, for free, [...]
Want to study bluegrass music with The Del McCoury Band? Well, that opportunity will be afforded to participants at the DelFest Academy, which debuts the week before the main festival this May in Cumberland, MD. Members of Del's band, along with Ronnie Bowman and Steep Canyon Rangers will provide workshops and classes from May 19-21, [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers have re-upped with Rebel Records, and will begin work on their fourth Rebel project later this month. They have tapped Ronnie Bowman again as producer, reprising his role in the success of the band's last project, Lovin' Pretty Women. Tracking is scheduled to begin in late February at Wyatt Rice's studio just [...]
The second album from the Songs From The Road Band, As The Crow Flies, in now available online. The band is a side-project for members of several bands based in North Carolina, the brainchild of Charles Humphrey III, bass player with Steep Canyon Rangers. In addition to the Rangers, members of SFTRB are drawn from [...]
Today (1/16) is a banner day for finding choice bluegrass online. After the Mountain Heart and David Bromberg live set at noon on WDVX, there are three other opportunities on broadcast and online radio. At 1:00 p.m., Ralph Stanley II will join Gracie Muldoon for a live interview on WorldWideBluegrass.com, cybercasting bluegrass 24/7 on the [...]
Fans of bluegrass veteran Curly Seckler will be able to enjoy two radio programs in which he is featured during the holiday period. On Friday, December 26 Seckler discusses his career with host Frank Stasio on North Carolina Public Radio's The State of Things. During the hour long program, he will perform several songs backed [...]
