Author: Richard Thompson

Under the auspices of the Scottish Bluegrass Association (SBA), John Sheldon has organised a 10-day tour for the northern Virginia - soon to be Louisville, Kentucky - based family band, Gold Heart. Gold Heart is dominated by the three very talented

The mailing to journalists of the Donna Ulisse CD Walk This Mountain Down (Hadley Music Group) is imminent. Promo mailings for this album "should be in another week or so," according to Kathy Anderson of the Hadley Music Group. Donna has

On Sunday, November 2, 2008, the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky, unveiled a brand new Curly Seckler exhibit. The exhibit, which will remain up for one year, includes photos, posters and LPs from Seckler's 70 plus years in bluegrass

Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention. It was his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his

Koch Records has announced the release yesterday (11/11), of Charlie Daniels And Friends Live From Nashville concert video. The DVD, Preachin', Prayin', Singin',  features the likes of Mac Wiseman, Earl, Gary and Randy Scruggs, Del, Ronnie and Rob McCoury as well

The following press release came from the British Bluegrass Music Association. It deals with their renewed effort to revitalize the organization, and we reprint it in its entirety. Following the election of John Wirtz as the British Bluegrass Music Association's chairman

Suzy Rothfield Thompson, who has been working on a documentary film about the New Lost City Ramblers (NLCR) for the past year, is seeking additional funding to enable completion of a film about the ground-breaking group. The film includes a mixture

The management of the famous Nashville, Tennessee, bluegrass music venue, The Station Inn, is having a fund-raising concert. J T Gray, the owner of the club on 12th Avenue South, has organized a show, which will take place on November 19,

Rich Hersberger, the Secretary of the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation (BBJF), has announced that the fund raising efforts to help buy the Indiana music park previously owned and managed by Bill Monroe realized nearly $5,000 during the recent Uncle Pen

Veteran bluegrass mandolin player Dewey Murphy has promised to donate his mandolin to the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM), in Owensboro, when he retires from music. The 79 year old from North Carolina still plays at bluegrass festivals, but his 1924