Miscellaneous bluegrass news

  • Butch Baldassari Mandolin Workshops

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    Butch Baldassari sent along a note to let let people know about a mandolin workshop he's holding November 11, 2006 in the Nashville area. There will be workshops for beginners, intermediate and advanced players. The workshops will be held at

  • Hot topics on The B

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    We have a number of new posts up on The B, with at least one that is generating some interesting back and forth. Check the post on Live Soundboard Recordings to witness the virulent disagreements elicited by the opposing sides

  • Alison Krauss rides the Santa Train

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    Alison Krauss in a Santa Suit? It could happen. Well probably not, but she will be aboard the 2006 Santa Train, The Santa Special. The train will be traveling a 110-mile route between Kingsport, TN and Pikeville, KY, stopping in

  • Steep Canyon Rangers on BluegrassCountry.org

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    IBMA 2006 Emerging Artist of the Year, Steep Canyon Rangers, will be featured on BluegrassCountry.org this afternoon. If you live in the DC area you can listen in high def on WAMU 88.5 channel 3. If not, you can listen

  • Rounder Records – first release anniversary

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    Today marks the 36th anniversary of the first two album releases by Rounder Records. Rounder 0001 - George Pegram and Rounder 0002 - The Spark Gap Wonder Boys were both released on October 20th, 1970. In the following 36 years Rounder

  • Is Bluegrass old enough to be traditional?

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    Express, a blog belonging to the Washington Post, has a short article up about Chris Thile. They quote Chris on the topic of bluegrass tradition. Chris expresses his viewpoint in words similar to those he used in our recent GrassCast

  • Bradley Walker video online

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    This morning I was surfing around the net and discovered that Rounder Records has a video online about Bradley Walker. They're calling it an ecard, but it's more like a mini-documentary. It contains some obvious promotional elements, but that's ok.

  • Sunday Reading

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    For your Sunday reading pleasure I've gathered up a couple links to articles that might be of interest. Here they are in no particular order. Vince Gill - The Boston Globe has a nice 2 page story about Vince Gill's new

  • The Station Inn: Been there, Scene that

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    This post is a contribution from Casey Henry, who writes from Nashville. It was initially posted in The B. This week's issue of the The Nashville Scene is the annual Best Of Nashville issue. They scour the city looking for

  • Vintage Festival Photos

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    Mandolin Cafe is directing attention to a post in their forum, that was started last September. The post contains a whole bunch of vintage photos from bluegrass festivals. It's great for scrolling through and saying things like "Wow!", "Oh My!",