• Grasstowne – one year in

    Here's another bluegrass anniversary worth noting. It was almost exactly one year ago that we told you about a new band forming with prominent members drawn from several popular touring acts. The announcement came on December 1, 2006 of the imminent debut

  • Milestone for ukbluegrass.com

    Congratulations to our friends at ukbluegrass.com! They have just completed their first year online promoting British Bluegrass, and are celebrating with a giveaway for their UK readers. Prizes are drawn from recent releases from a number of prominent bluegrass Brits (Howard

  • The Sinai Mountain Boys at the Kennedy Center

    As we are now within the officially-recognized holiday season, one expects to find notices about Christmas concerts featuring bluegrass and acoustic music. It was something of a surprise, though a most pleasant one, to see news of a show scheduled

  • Tied to the Tracks heads into syndication

    We heard this weekend from Larry Wines, who has hosted Tied To The Tracks on KCSN in Los Angeles, CA for several years. The show features a mixture of live acoustic performance and recorded music, which they describe as: "blues-to-bluegrass, Cajun-to-cowboy,

  • Waller guitar benefit auction on eBay

    A vintage Yamaha flat top guitar once owned by Charlie Waller is being offered on eBay to raise money for needy families this holiday season. Its current owner, Christopher Ryan Jones of Bluegrass Mafia, has donated the guitar to benefit Operation

  • Rhonda Vincent video on YouTube

    Rounder Records has created a mini-documentary and interview with Rhonda Vincent to help build interest in her upcoming January release, Good Thing Going. Rhonda speaks about how she came to write several of the songs on the new CD, and how

  • Chapmans in Best Of Bands video competition

    It's not just Randy Kohrs who is shocking the pundits with the power of grassroots bluegrass fans in effecting online balloting. The Chapmans also find themselves as the sole bluegrass artists in a head-to-head competition with a bevy of pop and

  • Stringdusters on The Opry tonight

    This evening, November 23, will find The Infamous Stringdusters on the stage of The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, making their debut performance on the venerable radio broadcast. They will be featured in the 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. segment (EST), which

  • New CD from Lilly of the West

    It seems that we are still playing catch-up, trying to make mention of the great many new CDs that have come our way this fall. Once again, I'll try to get to several more over this long holiday weekend. Time After

  • Randy Kohrs video – and single

    Keeping up with Randy Kohrs video and single for Who's Goin' With Me... His video is still in the running at the CMT Pure Top 20 Countdown, rated #4 this week against some steep mainstream country competition. The rankings are based