Tag: Steep Canyon Rangers

40th Anniversary Telluride coverage

| June 14, 2013 | 0 Comments
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We’d like to introduce David Smith, who will be providing on-site coverage during the Telluride Bluegrass festival next weekend in Colorado. He will join Jason Lombard who will be photographing the event for us. I’m thrilled to be joining the Bluegrass Today team for the [...]

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More from Gettysburg, Spring 2013

| May 30, 2013 | 0 Comments
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Here are Frank Baker’s images from Saturday at the 2013 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival.  

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Steve, Edie and The Steeps on Letterman

| April 24, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Here’s video of last night’s performance of When You Get To Asheville on The Late Show by Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, The Steep Canyon Rangers, and members of the CBS Orchestra. The song is the opening track from Steve and Edie’s just-released album,  Love Has [...]

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Rangers in Woodstock working on their next CD

| February 26, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Fresh off their success at the Grammy Awards, Steep Canyon Rangers are in Woodstock, NY recording the follow-up to their Grammy-winning album, Nobody Knows You. The guys are at Levon Helm Studios, the iconic wooden barn noted for its live sound, where everyone from Vassar [...]

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Whatever Floats Your Boat, Mountain Song at Sea Had it All

| February 12, 2013 | 2 Comments
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Mountain Song at Sea, the largest-ever bluegrass festival to ply the oceans, has sailed into the sunset, but not without leaving its mark on the 2000+ bluegrass lovers and artists who came together aboard Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sky February 1-4. It was a weekend [...]

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And the Bluegrass Grammy for 2013 goes to…

| February 10, 2013 | 1 Comment
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Congratulations to Steep Canyon Rangers, whose Nobody Knows You album was just announced as the winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for the Best Bluegrass Album. The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Yo Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan) was awarded the Best Folk Album [...]

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Bon Voyage! Mountain Song at Sea sets sail

| February 1, 2013 | 1 Comment
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All aboooaaaard! All aboard, and bring your…banjos? About 2000 bluegrass fans, artists and press are taking to the high seas of the Atlantic today, February 1, on Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Sky, for the maiden voyage of Mountain Song at Sea, the largest bluegrass festival [...]

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Steve & Edie ride again

| January 25, 2013 | 2 Comments
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Not that Steve & Eydie… We’re talking Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. It’s a safe assumption that our readers are well familiar with Steve Martin, both from his star turns in comedy and film, and his new-found career as a performing/recording banjo player and songwriter. [...]

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PopMatters – Best of Bluegrass 2012

| December 31, 2012 | 0 Comments
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It’s that time of year again, where pundits assess various aspects of the past 12 months. One of the first to do so and publish their list of favourites is PopMatters, the international magazine of cultural criticism. PopMatters’ bluegrass Top Ten listing includes a good [...]

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55th Grammy Award nominees announced

| December 6, 2012 | 0 Comments
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The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 55th annual Grammy Awards in a Nashville ceremony last night. While the rest of the world gushes over Jay-Z, The Black Keys and Kanye West, we’ll save our praise for the all important Best Bluegrass Album category. [...]

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