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There is an embarrassment of riches this Friday (5/15) for folks who can tune in to online radio and TV during business hours. We'll highlight each of several special programs featuring bluegrass artists in the next few postings. First up is Carol Beaugard's Lonesome Pine RFD which airs on WFDU in the New York City [...]
The promoters of the Gathering Of The Vibes festival have come up with a clever way to get you to tune in for their live webcast tonight (4/2) when they announce this year's lineup. After the announcements, they will run a video of a live performance at The Gathering in 2004 by The Masters Of [...]
Tony Trischka was recently awarded for his CD, territory. The CD won the award for Best Americana Album at the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards">8th Annual Independent Music Awards. territory was released in 2008 on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. The CD contains 21 tracks including both 3-finger style and clawhammer style banjo playing. Many of the [...]
Mel Bay Publications has released a new book/CD package from Tony Trischka, called Master Collection of Fiddle Tunes for Banjo. Dozens of tunes most commonly played on the fiddle are arranged for 3 finger banjo, encompassing music from the American and British Isles fiddle traditions. Bluegrass, Celtic and old time tunes are included, presented in [...]
Rounder Records subtitles banjo man Tony Trischka's newly-reissued 1985 album Hill Country as The Tony Trischka Bluegrass Album. That reference doesn't seem especially startling to modern eyes, following Tony's success in 2007 with his Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular project, but when Hill Country was initially released on LP in '85, it smacked of heresy. Tony [...]
Rounder will be reissuing Tony Trischka's terrific 1985 banjo album, Hill Country as a remastered CD on October 21. Tony is viewed as a mainstream guy these days, thanks in no small part to his blockbuster Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular project which hit in early 2007. In the mid-1980s, however, he was noted mostly for [...]
Tony Trischka will be appearing tomorrow on the popular, syndicated morning talk show, Live with Regis and Kelly. Tony is only two weeks away from the release of his latest CD, Territory, and it is safe to presume that he will perform something from this new project on Live. The show airs in most markets [...]
Tony Trischka will be the featured guest on tomorrow's (2/15) edition of Lonesome Pine RFD on WFDU-FM, broadcast in the New York City metro area. He will join host Carol Beaugard for a discussion about his upcoming CD release, Territory, and perform tunes live in the studio. Carol also plans to ask Tony about the [...]
Fresh off the success of his 2007 release, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular - up for a Grammy Award this weekend - Tony Trischka has another ambitious recording due for release in March. Despite all the hoopla he generated with the Double Banjo project, this time out Trischka is following a more minimalist approach. There are [...]
Here's a late Christmas present from Sirius Bluegrass... Later this morning, they will present a live, in-studio performance of the music from Tony Trischka's award-winning recording, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular. The CD features Tony in duet with some of the most prominent pickers ever to set three picks to five strings: Earl Scruggs, B?©la Fleck, [...]
