Author: Brance

In 2001 Adam Steffey released a solo project entitled Grateful, on Mountain Home Records. It sold out and was unavailable for a time, but has now been brought back to retail. Grateful includes Steffey, 4 time IBMA Mandolin Player of

Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road have just released a new CD, A Stop In SouthPort Towne , on Blue Circle Records. Produced by Steve Dilling and Lorraine Jordan, this is the band's sophomore release. The musicians on the project include

We have previously reported to you about the new CD release from mando master Sam Bush, Laps In Seven, so I won't go into detail. But I will point you toward what Gibson calls it's Backstage Pass series. It's an

Here's a couple links to news stories I found about The Del McCoury Band's new CD, Promised Land. NPR : 'Promised Land': Del McCoury's Gospel Bluegrass NPR: Crossing Over The Threshold of Bluegrass Blogcritics.org: most promising sounding new ablum

For the next two weeks, The GrassCast will focus on bluegrass songwriters. Episode 33 is a discussion with Mark "Brink" Brinkman, whose publishing company, Brinksongs, has been successful getting cuts on projects from Don Rigsby, The Kruger Brothers, Pine Mountain

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) just announced the 2006 recipients of the NEA National Heritage Fellowships. Doyle Lawson has been named one of this years recipients. Lawson will travel to Washington, DC for a September 13th banquet honoring

This Saturday night at 6PM EST BluegrassRadio.org will be broadcasting a one hour radio special entitled Ralph Stanley: A Distant Land To Roam, Songs of the Carter Family. This is a special program that includes music from Stanley's new CD

Some of you may have noticed some strange behavior from the site yesterday afternoon. Recently as our readership has gone up we have experienced server overloads at an increasing rate. In an effort to prevent this from occurring in the

The New England Mandolin Ensemble will be holding their second annual Cape Cod Mandolin Camp this fall in East Sandwich, MA. The camp runs from September 29 through October 1, 2006. Bringing a wide range of styles to mandolin playing

Mandolinist Scott Napier has recently become the newest member of the Dale Ann Bradley band. I had to opportunity to speak with Dale Ann via email and asked her about having Scott in the band. Scott is extremely innovative and his