Brand New Strings has just released a promotional video to give bluegrass lovers a chance to get to know them, and their music, a little better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fknGAy7y5g
Author: John Lawless
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Thursday afternoon Bluegrass Country
WAMU's Bluegrass Country will be live again this afternoon from IBMA. They will have live sets and interviews with a number of bluegrass legends, a couple of new acts with new CDs, a popular songwriter and a preview of tonight's International
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Crooked Still at Lotus World
In keeping with Sam Bush's Keynote admonition about supporting new music from a younger generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians, we offer this video clip of Crooked Still. It's of them at the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival in Bloomington,
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Bluegrass Country Wednesday schedule
You know what they say about the best laid plans... If you were listening in to WAMU's Bluegrass Country on Tuesday afternoon to catch the live interviews from IBMA, you noticed that a technical glitch shut them down for about an
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Bluestar launches in support of Look To The Light
Bluestar is a new "special project" band recently formed to tour in support of Rick Lang's terrific Look To The Light CD. The album features a powerful lineup of bluegrass all-stars on a set of Rick's original Gospel music, several
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IBMA 2010 coverage on Bluegrass Today
Bluegrass Today is providing ongoing coverage of the 2010 World Of Bluegrass, Awards Show and Fan Fest in Nashville (9/27-10/2). We have roving correspondents prying into every nook and cranny at the Nashville Convention Center, and photographers doing the same. They'll
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Bluegrass Country Tuesday lineup
Once again, WAMU's Bluegrass Country will be broadcasting live at IBMA this afternoon from 3:00-6:00 p.m. (EDT). Today's spots will include a couple of long-time bluegrass acts and several new, young groups at World of Bluegrass looking for a chance to
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2010 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert
This past Friday (9/24) saw the 2010 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert held in Bethesda, MD. This is an annual event, honoring the various recipients of each year's substantial fellowship awards. Among the 2010 recipients were bluegrass icons, Del McCoury and
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Our 2010 IBMA correspondents
We'd like to take a few minutes to introduce you all to the good folks who will be covering the 2010 World Of Bluegrass events in Nashville this week for The Bluegras Blog. There is a profile created for each of
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Russ Carson to Audie Blaylock
Talented young banjo picker Russ Carson has been announced as the newest member of Audie Blaylock and Redline. Russ had been performing of late as a member of Gold Heart, and will be doing double-duty with both bands during IBMA this