Author: John Lawless

The Foothills Bluegrass Music Society in Calgary, Alberta is hosting their 1st Annual Chinookgrass Academy at the Sheraton Cavalier Hotel in Calgary on February 11-12, 2006. Instructors include Bill Evans (banjo), John Reischman (mandolin), Eric Thompson (guitar), Trisha Gagnon (bass),

We posted a few months ago about the stage show produced at Barter Theater in Abingdon, VA about the life of The Stanley Brothers, called Man Of Constant Sorrow. At that time, we mentioned that the show, while only appearing

Gracie Muldoon will be interviewing Kim Fox of 3 Fox Drive during her show this afternoon (1/27) on The Original Country Radio Network. The show, Muldoon In The Afternoon, runs from 4:00-6:00 p.m. (EST) and the Fox interview will be

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Steve Smith, based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, will be bringing his music - and his band, Hard Road - back east for a number of shows in February 2006. Steve is a native of eastern Virginia,

We received a note from Clyde Scott at BluegrassRadio.org marking their second anniversary providing bluegrass music programming on the web. "The success of the past two years has been overwhelming to say the least. I look forward to many more years

We posted last week about the Monroe Style Mandolin Camp which will be hosted this fall by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. Among the instructors chosen for this new event is Red Henry, who passed along

Nickel Creek will be the musical guest on tonight's edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC. They will perform Jealous Of The Moon from their current CD release Why Should The Fire Die? The show airs at

Award winning fiddler Michael Cleveland has announced that in addition to his regular gig as a member of Dale Ann Bradley's band, he will also be doing shows this year with his own group, FlameKeeper. Joining him will be Audie

Acoustic Disc, the mando-centric record company owned by David Grisman, has started experimenting with online music downloads. At this time, only four titles from their catalog can be purchased via download, but more are expected to be added should the

The next Pinecastle release for Nothin' Fancy is coming along nicely, according to mandolinist and vocalist, Mike Andes. Mike reports that they tracked the last song for this as yet unnamed project just after New Years at Flat 5 Press