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The International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) has been named the winner of a special award. The Owensboro, Kentucky-based IBMM has been honoured with a Kentucky History Award for education for its William Smith ‘Bill’ Monroe Centennial Exhibit, which opened in September

Tonight in Boston, Della Mae will celebrate the release of their new CD, I Built This Heart, at Beantown's venerable Club Passim. If you, like most of our readers can't make the trip, you can watch the whole thing streaming

The Banjo Project documentary is to be aired November 4, as part of the PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains series. Give Me the Banjo, an 80-minute film narrated by Steve Martin, will be one episode in the new mini-series, Arts Fall Festival, scheduled for national

Another important release this week is Goat Rodeo Sessions, a superstar project from Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Yo-Yo Ma which dropped yesterday (10/25) on Sony Masterworks. The group was featured on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night,

Many musicians have carved out their own niches in folk music, but few have accomplished as much as one man from Deep Gap, North Carolina. In his latest book, Blind But Now I See: The Biography of Music Legend Doc

Noam Pikelny's new banjo album, Beat The Devil and Carry A Rail, drops tomorrow (10/25), and we will run an interview with Noam at that time. But it turns out there's more to this project than meets the eye. Thanks to

Knoxville’s WDVX will be featuring one of its own, the late Carl Story, in a special two-hour program on Monday, October 24. Story, a North Carolina native and champion of  bluegrass Gospel music who died in 1995, played in an early

WAMU's Bluegrass Country has a new head honcho. Chris Tesky has moved to DC from Connecticut to take the job as Senior Music Producer at the 24/7 bluegrass channel, broadcasting on HD Radio in the DC market, and via internet streaming

Town Mountain recorded a trio of live, in-studio videos during the Knoxville Rhythm N Blooms festival this past Spring. These videos, showcasing songs from their Steady Operator CD, are now available in HD at Live and Breathing. Here's a look at one of

Bluegrass songstress Heather Berry has embarked on an ambitious project: to record and upload a song each day on video for an entire year. She is now up to day 9, all of which showcase her lovely singing voice, strong rhythm