• Jimmy Bowen T-shirt contest

    Do you love bluegrass music and have a creative, artistic streak? If so, Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe are hoping you'll enter their T-shirt and logo design contest. The contest ends on April 30, and winners will receive prizes including $200

  • Riverbend Bluegrass on BluegrassRadio.org

    BluegrassRadio.org will be re-airing the Riverbend Bluegrass Festival show recorded last Saturday this evening (4/26) at 7:00 p.m. (EDT). Performers featured include Ernie Thacker, returning to the stage after his two year recovery from a serious accident, followed by The

  • Mountain Heart on CMT Pure

    Mountain Heart came in #3 in the online fan voting in this week's CMT Pure 12-Pack Countdown for their Road That Never Ends video. That means that the video will be shown tonight (4/25) on television on CMTP, CMT's new digital

  • Crowd Funding – will it work for bluegrass?

    The Spring 2008 issue of Berklee Today, the official alumni publication of the Berklee College Of Music, has an interesting article on Crowd Funding. It was written by Peter Spellman, director of Berklee's Career Development Center, who has written a

  • 2008 Bluegrass Guide now available

    Mountain High Bluegrass Associates of Bellow Falls, VT has just published the 2008 Bluegrass Guide, featuring a cover story on native Vermonter, Dan Tyminski. Dan talks about learning to play as a young boy, his early picking days with Green Mountain

  • Infamous Stringdusters on TV

    This weekend's Grand Ole Opry features a number of bluegrass acts. Tonight's (4/25) Friday Opry will include performances from Bobby Osborne, The Whites, Dailey & Vincent and Jesse McReynolds. Saturday's (4/26) show offers even more bluegrass, including a live television appearance

  • Road Scholars on WDVX

    Friday's (4/25) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX promises a very special performance by The Road Scholars, a "one weekend only" band with some high octane vocal power. In addition to their live radio appearance, they will be performing

  • New solid wood mandolin from The Loar

    The Loar has announced the summer 2008 debut of their latest mandolin model. The LM-600-VS is an F-style instrument, which the manufacturer describes as an accurate replica of the original 1920's F5-style model. It is a solid wood, hand-carved and graduated

  • Labels wary of Sirius/XM merger?

    A great many bluegrass fans have embraced satellite radio. In addition to each having nearly 200 channels offering a wide variety of news, music and sports, both XM and Sirius have 24/7 bluegrass music channels produced in house. With the US