Author: John Lawless

We got a call earlier in the week from flatpick guitar demigod, Kenny Smith, just back from a whirlwind tour of the west coast. He taught at the Wintergrass Academy in late February, and then he and Amanda did some

The Lynn Morris Band website has some photos of Lynn at last month's SPBGMA Convention in Nashville, where she both performed with the band and accepted the 2006 Grand Masters Gold Award. This award is given to artists who have

We heard recently from Greg Cahill, our friend and occasional Guest Contributor here on Bluegrass Today, who passed along some details on Special Consensus' activities so far in 2006. Greg tells us that they have recently started work on a

We have posted many times in the past six months about the prestigious Berklee College Of Music's recent decision to allow banjo and mandolin players to attend the school. More accurately, the new policy allows banjo/mandolin players - who have

Our apologies to anyone who was unable to reach Bluegrass Today early on Monday morning. Our server was down for about two and a half hours (5:14 to 7:46 EST), but is back up and fully operational now.

Just a quick reminder that the Deering Banjos episode of John Ratzenberger's Made In America program on the cable network Travel Channel is scheduled to run on Tuesday, March 7. The show airs at 9:00 p.m. (EST), but as always,

The Gibson Brothers will be Kyle Cantrell's guests on Studio Special this next few weeks on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. The Gisons recorded some live music with Kyle in the studio, and discussed their new CD, Red Letter Day,

We received a note earlier in the week from our friend, Derek Brandon, mentioning that he had recently posted the most recent edition of North West Bluegrass News online. The North West in this case, is the northwestern part of

Many bluegrass lovers recognize Mark Schatz as a prolific and highly sought after bass man, having been an integral part of The Tony Rice Unit, a member of The Bluegrass Album Band, and for having toured and recorded with B???la

The March/April 2006 issue of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine includes an extensive cover story on Ron Block, who serves as both banjoist and guitarist with Alison Krauss & Union Station. The companion audio CD has two tunes that Ron recorded