• AutoCAD Wechter resonator guitar design

    Wechter Guitars has posted several YouTube videos with Abe Wechter showing how he uses computer assisted design software in creating the Scheerhorn-licensed resonator guitars he produces. Anyone interested in how this software has been embraced by the instrument building world

  • New faces at Roe Entertainment

    Roe Entertainment has just announced the signing of two new acts to their talent roster. New Found Road and Dan Paisley and The Southern Grass are now represented by Roe, in addition to Lonesome River Band, Karl Shifflet & Big Country,

  • Don Parmley commemorative road sign

    This past April, we told you about a special celebration in Monticello, KY honoring Don Parmley, founder of The Bluegrass Cardinals. He performed on banjo with the Cardinals for years along with his son, David Parmley. Other members of the

  • Tony Trischka in South Florida August 18, 2007

    Hollywood Playhouse and South Florida Bluegrass Association present Tony Trischka, "one of the most impressive banjoists alive."  Tony's new CD, "Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular," is a bluegrass album, with a bushel of fellow banjoists.  Showtime:  Saturday, August 18, 2007, 8pm. 

  • A manifesto for artistic self-liberation

    This post is a contribution from David McCarty, a music journalist, songwriter and musician who writes regularly for Bluegrass Unlimited and Flatpicking Guitar magazines, and performs as a member of The Hot Club of Naptown. Your comments are welcome -

  • Dewey Renfro Cancer Benefit – Sept. 22

    Long-time bluegrass bass player Dewey Renfro (most notably with Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals) has been suffering with cancer for several years which eventually caused him to lose a toe and a kidney. The cancer has now progressd to

  • Pete Wernick on Steve Martin wedding

    We posted yesterday afternoon about Hot Rize performing during and after Steve Martin's "surprise" wedding ceremony at his home in Los Angeles on July 28. As we might have suspected, Pete Wernick (Dr. Banjo) was in the thick of the