Bluegrass radio news

BBC Radio 4 FM carried a 30 minute program yesterday on the history of the banjo. It is set to air again on January 29 from 11:00-11:30 p.m. (GMT), but it can also be heard on the BBC web site

I know Pandora.com has existed for a while now, but I've just recently given it a try and thought I'd share with the rest of you. If you don't know, Pandora.com is a website where you get to set up

The Tony Trischka piece on NPR's Weekend Edition which Brance mentioned on Saturday can now be heard online. It ran earlier today on most NPR radio affiliates. Tony appeared along with Steve Martin and Bela Fleck to discuss his new Rounder

This Sunday NPR's Weekend Edition will feature Tony Trischka in an interview and performance segment. The segment will air at 9:40 AM ET on Sunday January 21, 2007. It will be repeated at 11:40 AM and 1:40 PM the same

We received a note recently from Guillaume Veillet, who until about two months ago was a prominent roots and acoustic radio host in France. He had been a strong supporter of bluegrass and old time music on the air, and

The long awaited new release from Kenny & Amanda Smith on Rebel Records is due to hit the street on January 30, and radio promos are being shipped this week. Titled Tell Someone, it is the first all-Gospel project from

J.D. Crowe & The New South are this week's guest on Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. As always, the show is a mix of live performance and casual discussion. The program first ran last Friday, and aired twice

Recently, Katy Daly and Jen Hitt of WAMU and BluegrassCountry.org traveled to Hagerstown, MD with Mike Auldridge to visit the shop of resonator guitar maker Paul Beard. They recorded their discussions with Beard and put them together to broadcast as

We heard recently from Courtney Pitre, who hosts the Bluegrass Highway radio show on KRVS FM 88.7 in Lafayette, LA. Her show airs on Saturday nights at 7:30 p.m. (CST), with a rebroadcast on Mondays at noon and reaches a radio

PineCone, also known as the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, has posted two live performance video samples on their MySpace page. The videos are for The Wilders and The Red Stick Ramblers, both of whom are slated to appear at the