Author: John Lawless

The first day of IBMA's World Of Bluegrass 2005 is largely done, and as in prior years, Monday served as a warm up for the busier parts of the week to come. The morning hours saw attendees arriving and checking

Starting on Tuesday October 25, The Country Music Hall Of Fame and Museum will offer a special programming schedule to coincide with IBMA week in Nashville. Located at 222 Fifth Ave. S., the Hall Of Fame and Museum is only a

Mandolinist Emory Lester has a new CD of traditional Christmas melodies, Christmas Carols, from Quiet Fire Productions. Includes 11 instrumental versions of holiday clasics like Carol of the Bells, O Come O Come Immanuel, The Coventry Carol, We Three

Brance and I are packing it up and hitting the road for IBMA week in Nashville. We will be covering the many events of this busy World Of Bluegrass week with a flurry of blog posts, daily photo galleries and

Geoff Stelling tells me that while his new Stelling Banjo Anthology CD isn't set to be released until November 8 on Rebel Records, he will have copies available at IBMA this week, and that they can be ordered from the

OK... last post on the Bluegrass Beatles photo. I heard yesterday from Sherri Chekal, who I had only recently met through her connections to the TriState Bluegrass Journal, and BluegrassTalkRadio.com. She laid claim to the Photoshop work on that classic Beatles

CMT.com has put together a special web site feature for IBMA's big week in Nashville. They have assembled photo galleries, video clips, audio files and even a Fun & Games page where you can play an IBMA Nominee Trivia game

Andy Friedman, my indispensable operations manager at AcuTab, passed along a site he found: "While searching on-line for parking lots in Nashville I ran across this excellent reference site: Park It Downtown. It includes a printable color coded map of

A Day in the Life of the American Woman - How We See Ourselves is the title of a new book of photos and essays from Bullfinch Press, documenting a typical day in the life of 50 diverse American women.

Here's some unfortunate news for bluegrass fans, and for a number of popular bluegrass and acoustic music artists. One of the more promising and aggressive entries in the production and marketing of bluegrass recordings of late has been Koch Records