• Fired Up banjo tabs available

    Tom Adams has published an ebook of banjo tab transcriptions from Fired Up, the latest album by Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper. The tabs are based on the playing of crackerjack picker Jessie Baker who tracked the record with Michael, but

  • Dailey & Vincent are Going To Georgia

    Dailey & Vincent recently posted this bus rehearsal video of Ralph Stanley's Going To Georgia, which one assumes will soon be making its way into the boys' stage show. The song was initially recorded by Ralph and his Clinch Mountain Boys,

  • AKUS on The View

    This morning's (8/5) edition of The View on ABC will include a live in-studio performance from Alison Krauss & Union Station. The band is on tour promoting their new CD, Paper Airplane, and making a stop in NYC between shows in

  • Zach Gilmer to Highway 111

    Zach Gilmer is now playing banjo and guitar, and providing harmony vocals, as a member of Sierra Hull & Highway 111. He's been with the band for a couple months, and Sierra says that he's committed for the next year

  • More Kenny Baker tribute from Grey Fox

    Here is another video from Grey Fox, again with a Kenny Baker tribute theme. This time, we have Tim O'Brien and Chris Thile offering up a twin mandolin version of Bill Monroe's Jerusalem Ridge, long associated with Baker for his definitive

  • Ryan Cavanaugh in Banjo NewsLetter

    The August edition of the venerable Banjo NewsLetter is out, with adventurous 5-string jazz banjo player Ryan Cavanaugh on the cover. Ryan spent the early aughts impressing judges at banjo competitions like Renofest, Merlefest and RockyGrass, each of which crowned his

  • Another live video from Monroeville

    Monroeville has released a second live video from their recent shoot at the Dumplin Valley Farm RV Park which also produced the Devil's Rope video we posted last week. The tune this time around is Passive Aggressive, included on their self-titled

  • Bankesters with Jamie Johnson at Station Inn

    Phil Bankester set a camera up back at the soundboard during The Bankesters' CD release party at Nashville's Station Inn on July 6. They were celebrating their newest album, appropriately titled The Bankesters, which includes a duet between Emily Bankester and

  • Fanning The Fire wins Colorado film prize

    We posted back in April about Fanning The Fire, a short documentary film about bluegrass music that was produced in association with the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation in Texas. The film follows Texas teen Lucas White in his bluegrass adventure from a

  • Mountain Heart, Charlie Sizemore on Mountain Stage

    There's bluegrass a'plenty on this weekend's edition on Mountain Stage, airing on dozens of NPR affiliates across the US. Nashville bad boys Mountain Heart will be featured, as well as Michigan's Greensky Bluegrass and the singing bluegrass attorney, Charlie Sizemore -