Non-US bluegrass news

Here's a lovely bluegrass Christmas gift from the Green Whisky Boys in Czech Republic - a Christmas sing at a pub in Chotýcany. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4-qkDz0n6Y Veselé Vánoce, everybody!

Bluegrass had international influences bound up in its genesis, but it developed as a uniquely American music form. As the genre has matured, it has grown to become a truly international musical style, with fans and practitioners of the music

The package show Bluegrass Jamboree is once again winding its way across Germany this December, just as they did on the debut pilgrimage last year. The tour is managed by Rainer Zellner, who has long promoted bluegrass music in Germany. It

The Toy Hearts have released a music video for the special radio mix of the title track from Femme Fatale, their most recent CD. It presents the Johnson girls (Hannah and Sophia) in hot swing, high fashion style. Hannah carries the

The singing Johnson sisters, i.e., England's Toy Hearts, have released the first single from their new Femme Fatale CD. It's the title track, in a special radio edit, offered for sale as a digital download through iTunes. Femme Fatale features Toy

This week saw the release of Untapped Routes from Sweden's G2, an occasion which led to them being offered the opportunity to perform on Bingolotto, the Kingdom's top game show on national television. Banjo picker Jens Koch tells us that the

In our continuing coverage of the Spanish bluegrass scene... Lluis Gómez, influential Spanish banjo pioneer and long-time member of the Barcelona Bluegrass Band, has just published the first-ever banjo instruction book in Spanish. Manual de iniciación al banjo de cinco cuerdas

Back in April we shared some information about the Cubero Brothers, Los Hermanos Cubero, a guitar/mandolin duo from Spain who inject a healthy dose of Bill Monroe into the traditional folk music of España. The brothers are Roberto on mandolin

This post is a contribution from Terri Holloway, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. See her profile here. Bluegrass, apparently, isn't quite as popular in Europe as we all believe. At least according to Rainer Zellner, promoter, and Hansjoerg Malonek, cultural

Here is a gallery of photos I have been meaning to get up for three weeks now! Thanks so much to Lilly Pavlak who took these at the La Roche Bluegrass Festival in France which ran from July 28-August 1. Lily