Author: John Lawless

Sirius Satellite Radio announced yesterday that Del McCoury will host his own hour-long music program, exclusively available on Sirius Channel 65. Hand Picked with Del McCoury will debut on June 24, and air each Saturday at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern). Each week,

Rhonda Vincent will be the guest this week on Kyle Cantrell's Studio Special program, which runs on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14). Each week Kyle welcomes a guest into the studio for interviews and live performance. Rhonda and The

We just heard from David Russell with The Bluegrass Journal, who shared a note he had received from Ernie Thacker. Regular readers of Bluegrass Today have surely noted that Ernie was seriously injured in an auto accident back in April,

Updated 6/16, 7:00 a.m. The recent history of bluegrass music has seen the occasion of a number of "part time" bands, made up of members of other full time touring acts. Perhaps the most prominent was The Bluegrass Album Band,

The folks at WHUS in Storrs, CT who host Bluegrass Cafe (each Sunday from 4:00-6:00 p.m.) have started their own blog. The primary thrust of the new Bluegrass Cafe blog is to post their playlist each week, but site author

We have mentioned New Tattoo, the just-released CD from The John Cowan Band, a number of times this past few months. It was officially released yesterday, and the band has created a full-featured e-card to help promote the CD. The

We posted yesterday with news that Kristin and Wayne Benson were expecting their first child in October. We mentioned that we weren't sure what Kristin's plans might be for the future, either with regard to playing banjo with Lonesome Standard

Huber Banjos got its start in 1997 when Steve Huber introduced his Vintage Flathead banjo tone ring. Steve's earlier investigations had shown him that the alloys used in most modern banjo tone rings differed significantly from that which was used

The newest host to join WorldWideBluegrass.com's daily cybercast is Jeff DeFord, whose show will originate from Arizona. Jeff's show debuts this evening, and will run each Wednesday evening from 8:00-10:00 p.m. (Eastern). The playlist is expected to mix string band

Mountain Stage, the long-running roots music radio show hosted by Larry Groce, and now also offered on television, will travel to Bristol (TN/VA) to record shows in honor of Bristol's status as "The Birthplace Of Country Music." An organization by