Bluegrass radio news

There will be a special bluegrass performance on this Friday's (5/11) edition of The Blue Plate Special, at noon on WDVX. The show will feature a live (in-studio) set with Butch Baldassari (mandolin), Barbara Lamb (fiddle), Kathy Chiavola (guitar/vocal) and

We have posted a number of times in the past few months about the new royalty rates for Internet radio established by the US Copyright Royalty Board. These new rates represent a dramatic increase in the royalties owed to both

The video is now up of the recent appearance by Special Consensus on Michael Jonathan's Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. Special C shared the bill with folk/country singer Elizabeth Cook, and performed songs from their upcoming Pinecastle CD, The Trail

The International Bluegrass Music Museum quietly launched a new internet radio station the first of this month, but now they are making some noise about it. RBI (Radio Bluegrass International), as it is called, is a non-commercial, 24-hour streaming internet broadcast

Uncle Billy Dunbar, a host at WorldWideBluegrass.com will be "spinning" a tribute to the late Larry Rice on Thursday May 10, 2007. Larry Rice was the mandolin playing brother of guitar hero Tony Rice. Larry passed away last year during the

For any bluegrass artists, labels or bands with some CD promos to spare, here's a chance to help out some bluegrass-friendly radio folks in a tight spot. Dwayne Amburgey hosts a 5 hour show each Saturday morning on WSGS FM, a

We see two great bluegrass offerings available via streaming online audio for Friday, May 4. First up at noon (EDT) is a live performance by James Reams & The Barnstormers on WDVX's Blue Plate Special. The show airs in Knoxville, TN

Irish bluegrass affeniato Niall Toner, mandolin and guitar player with the Niall Toner Band, interviewed Bela Fleck during a recent trip the banjo player took to Ireland. The interview is set to be broadcast on RTE Radio 1, on which

Yesterday (4/26), Earl Scruggs was a guest on NPR's All Things Considered, where he discussed the recently released set of DVDs from the Flatt & Scruggs television shows in the the late 1950s and early '60s. He talks with Melissa Block

The King Easy Radio Sampler is a new entry offering radio service for acoustic music artists and labels. They will mail a sampler CD to 1,000 of the top folk, roots and Americana shows in the US and Canada, and