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The Bluegrass Intelligencer returns
After a hiatus of more than two years, The Bluegrass Intelligencer has arisen like a phoenix from the ashes of a bad metaphor. This hilarious site, which features parody, satire and inside humor for fans of bluegrass and acoustic music, is the wok of Greg [...]
Winner announced in Silver Dollar City contest
Regular readers of Bluegrass Today will surely have noticed the campaign by Silver Dollar City offering free passes, accommodations and more to their big Bluegrass & BBQ Festival, starting next week. We know some of you were following it closely, as we started getting email queries [...]
Figuring Out Chords at the Shindig on the Green
Shindig. To people in western North Carolina where I live, Shindig is short for Shindig on the Green, which is an outdoor bluegrass music festival held on the courthouse steps in Asheville. Now in its forty-fifth year, the Shindig is a unique summer festival, drawing [...]
Stoney Creek releases Are You Ready?
We’ve just received word from West Virginia-based Stoney Creek that they’ve completed work on a new all-Gospel project, titled Are You Ready? While the complete project will be released in June, the title track has already been released to AirPlay Direct, and will be distributed [...]
Competitions set for Silver Dollar City
The music competitions for the 2012 Silver Dollar City Bluegrass & BBQ Festival in Branson, MO are set, with bands lined up to give it their best shot during the three week event, which runs from May 10 to Junes 3. First up, May 19-20, [...]
Town Mountain in Norfolk
We had a pair of photographers shooting yesterday in Norfolk, VA at the Town Mountain concert. They performed on the lawn at Norfolk’s lovely Heritage Museum, and from all accounts put on a whale of a show. Thanks to Bryan Brough of Eyecaptures Photography and [...]
Happy Songs of Sunshine and Light
A while back I was invited to bring my fiddle to a potluck party some friends of mine hosted in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina. I brought along my instrument in the hopes of finding some bluegrass musicians to jam with. When I arrived [...]
5 Reasons Why Bluegrass Artists Need (Better) Websites
David Dufresne is the CEO of Bandzoogle, a website platform for independent musicians. Bandzoogle was founded in 2003, and tens of thousands of musicians have built their website and host it using Bandzoogle’s easy-to-use tools. The Internet is a big and scary place. When you’re [...]
Barn Dance from Little Black Train
Little Black Train is offering a free download of the first track on their second and newly-released album, Barn Dance. Based in California, the band calls themselves an oldternative acoustic trio, and consists of Kenny Blackwell on mandolin and guitar, John Weed on fiddle, and Stuart Mason [...]
It’s the Melody, Stupid!
In 1992, Bill Clinton grabbed headlines with the phrase “It’s the economy, stupid,” and used it to unseat George Bush as President. I’m not trying to stir up old political feuds or throw a hissy fit, but my point here should be as plain as [...]
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