If you've not yet tired of the discussion about the newly announced royalty rates for Internet radio (now apparently being reconsidred), you might be interested in this post from Wired magazine's blog. It contains the full text of the testimony that
Author: John Lawless
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Claire Lynch on WFDU Friday morning
Claire Lynch and her talented band will be the guests on Friday morning (3/23) with Carole Beaugard on Lonesome Pine RFD. The show airs from 10:00 a.m. until noon (eastern) on WFDU FM, broadcast from the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson
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Musician’s union responds to webcasters’ backlash
Hal Ponder, the Legislative Director for the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), circulated a message by email yesterday to the union membership with regard to the brewing controversy over the recent Copyright Royalty Board rate structure. It presents the union's take
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New banjo music from Jayme Stone
Jayme Stone is a banjo player whose music is hard to categorize. In fact, you might say that it has no boundaries. You could say the same thing about his whereabouts. With a new CD, The Utmost, due for release in
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Vintage bluegrass posters
Here's a fun site with images of vintage music show posters. It's run by Mitch Diamond, who calls himself The Kardboard Kid. Mitch has been collecting these posters and hand bills since 1970, and has amassed a substantial number
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Alison Krauss announces summer 2007 tour
Alison Krauss & Union Station have announced that tickets for dates on their summer tour will go on sale March 23, with some pre-sale opportunities in selected markets. The tour is being billed as A Hundred Miles or More Tour
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Infamous Stringdusters on AT&T blue room
The live set from The Infamous Stringdusters is now up at the AT&T blue room. They pick and sing in the studio (over a single microphone) and discuss the new CD and their musical influences in six video segments. Two songs
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Bob Amos songwriter chat tonight
Tonight (March 20) will find bluegrass singer/songwriter Bob Amos as the guest on The Bluegrass Guide's monthly Songwriter Chat. Bob is a founding member of Colorado's Front Range, and has a new CD with his Bob Amos Band, Reels Of
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NPR motion for rehearing on new online royalty rates
The topic of the newly reconstituted royalty rates for cybercasting - Internet radio - has been covered here on Bluegrass Today a good bit, and generated some discussion in the reader comments to one of these posts as well. For those
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A Kentucky Treasure: The J.D. Crowe Story
H. Russell Farmer (Russ), had spent the last 30 years producing and directing programming for Kentucky Educational Television (KET), one of the largest public/educational TV networks in the country. Numerous broadcasting awards have come his way, and bluegrass fans are