Miscellaneous bluegrass news

The tech and finance sites are abuzz with news/discussion about Warner Music Group's having hired industry consultant Jim Griffin to promote his plan to force internet service providers to charge a fee to all internet users for music rights. The

Here's an item that will be of interest to fans and friends of The Chapmans. We just received word that John and Vickie Chapman are celebrating the birth of their daughter, Kylie, but not without some complications. She had to be

We've heard this week from one of our regular email correspondents, who is in management with one of the larger specialty bluegrass labels. He passed along what is surely not encouraging news for those who depend on CD sales to large

Wayne Fields, most recently the banjo player with The Charlie Sizemore Band, passed away from complications associated with cancer on March 21. The deminutive Fields was born in Hazard, Kentucky, and moved to the Lexington area at a young age. He

There is much uncertainty in the business of music these days. The continuing decline of CD sales, the steadily increasing, but not sufficiently so, sales of digital downloads, the continuation of illegal music downloads, and rising price of gas,

Here's an interesting little episode for you. This comes from The Bowling Green News police blotter. These events took place last night at 3:53 AM on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. Campus police respond to a

My recent involvement with Bill Evans' Banjo In America program has me looking at banjo history a bit. So when I saw this news I thought it was worth sharing. The Univeristy of Flordia is hosting a five hour event tomorrow

The state of Kentucky honored native son Sam Bush this week, and Sam returned the favor by picking a few for the KY State Senate in Frankfort on Monday. The Senate approved a resolution which celebrated Bush's contributions to newgrass music,

We received a sad note this afternoon from Ted Jones (Ted Jones and the Tarheel Boys) about the loss of another member of the founding generation of bluegrass music. "I wanted to let you know that earlier today the music world

Following the results of yesterday's poll, as well as several comments submitted via email, have lead me to the following conclusions. The real question yesterday was this: Is iTunes the #2 retailer of music to bluegrass fans? It seems it may