Author: Brance

  • Jerry Douglas in Wall Street Journal

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    Barry Mazor just wrote in to let us know that he has published an article about Jerry Douglas in today's Wall Street Journal. Titled Jerry Douglas, Irreplaceable Instrumentalist, the article spends time focusing on Douglas' accomplishments, but also on how his

  • IBMA: Alan Munde

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    While walking around the trade show floor at IBMA last week, I ran across Alan Munde and stopped to chat for a moment. Here's the video. This one is short, runtime is 48 seconds. http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/munde.flv

  • Music on memory cards

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    Many have been wondering what is to become of the music industry with the seeming demise of the CD as a delivery format. Yahoo!tech is now speculating that the CD could see itself replaced by low cost flash memory cards such

  • Stolen Instrument: Gibson Adam Steffey #29

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    IBMA is mostly an old family homecoming, but there are a few bad apples in the barrel, so to speak. It seems one of them was wondering around the Renaissance Friday morning. Chris Harris, who plays mandolin with Junior Sisk and

  • IBMA: Kel Audio Interview

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    Here's another video interview from IBMA. This time John interviews Kelly Dueck of Kel Audio. Kelly is a banjo player turned microphone manufacturer. His microphones are in use both on stage and in the studio throughout the bluegrass world. I've got

  • IBMA: Chris Pandolfi Interview

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    Here's another video from IBMA. In this clip, John interviews banjo player Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters. http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/pandolfi.flv

  • Awards show photos

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    Here are some photos from last night's IBMA Awards Show and pre-show reception. All were taken by Tami Roth.                                                     

  • Cherryholmes interview

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    On Wednesday of IBMA week, John and I took the camera and hit the trade show floor looking for some interesting interviews. The first one we've got to share with you is the Cherryholmes family. The interview was timely as the

  • Dailey & Vincent on Broadway

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    Here's the Dailey & Vincent video we've been promising. This was shot downtown Nashville on Broadway. You'll see the location when you watch the video. The video was shot the night before the Awards show. It includes some fun stuff, some