• Headline Roundup

    Each day John and I receive a great many emails and phone calls reporting stories of interest to the bluegrass community. We write them up and report them here on Bluegrass Today. In addition to the news that is given

  • The newest Gibson model

    We just got a note from Eric Gibson, one half of the bluegrass singing and songwriting duo, The Gibson Brothers, with wonderful news. "Leigh Gibson and his wife Alison welcomed Joseph Arleigh into the world at 1:30 a.m. this morning." Congratulations to

  • Girl Scouts learn about bluegrass music

    On Saturday, February 16, 2008, Girl Scouts will have the opportunity to earn a unique patch. The History of Bluegrass patch is only available by attending one of the two group tours being offered that Saturday at the International Bluegrass

  • 25 million legal downloads, or not

    Yesterday morning a new peer-to-peer music downloading application was launched called Qtrax. The service was launched with the announcement that the company had negotiated licenses with all the major labels and would have over 25 million songs available for download,

  • New Baldassari mandolin CD

    Butch Baldassari has released a new old recording of jazz mandolin music on his Sound Art label. The Vespa Love Festival sessions was recorded in 1997 with Butch on mandolin, Jim Hoke on soprano sax, Byron House and Andy Spicher on

  • Woody Platt: Steep Canyon Ranger and fly-fisherman

    Asheville, NC paper, the Asheville Citizen-Times, ran this story over the weekend about Woody Platt. The story, concerned with fishing as the main topic, appeared in the Outdoors section of the paper. Woody is best known to bluegrass fans as the

  • Test your knowledge of bluegrass

    Here's something fun for you. Someone set up a quiz on GoToQuiz.com that will test your knowledge of bluegrass music. It's not terribly tricky or anything, only ten questions and I got 100%. If you're a hard core bluegrass aficionado

  • Gibson to merge with TC Group

    The Tennessean, Nashville's hometown paper, ran a story yesterday (1/18) that Gibson Guitar Corp. will merge with TC Group, a Danish pro audio firm. The merger was announced at the NAMM Winter Show in California, and according to The Tennessean, the

  • Shell smugglers caught in CO

    Here's a cautionary story for those bluegrassers who prefer the tone of tortoise shell picks. Agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have indicted 10 people after a multi-year investigation for smuggling hawksbill tortoise shells as well as finished guitar