Bluegrass At Large

We just received a note from Butch Baldassari, good friend to Bluegrass Today and anyone who loves bluegrass or mandolin music. Many of our readers may know that Butch, a prolific mandolin performer (Nashville Mandolin Ensemble), instructor and the head

Bluegrass is traditionally know as a roots genre ... those roots are deep in the family values we cherish in this country and especially in the South. I loved the trailer but would not give a penny to an organization called

The Music Link has announced a new model in its Recording King banjo line. The Melody King is presented as the entry level model to their roster of professional quality banjos, with the same basic component quality as its more

Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields is a new two-CD box set released by the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth here in Virginia. The set contains 48 songs covering topics from coal mining history to union organization. The

I've just posted a set of pictures I've taken at bluegrass festivals during the past year or so on my blog at www.tedlehmann.blogspot.com. Enjoy them and let me know whether you'd like to see more of these sets. -

With Wichita Rutherford you never really know what to expect next and I'll admit I didn't see this coming. I guess I should have, I know how much he likes ice cream! For the next two months Wichita is giving away

Our friend Dennis Jones at WNCW in Charlotte, NC shared with us the news that Horace Scruggs, older brother of Earl Scruggs, passed away on July 19. Many stories have been told of how the Scruggs brothers would practice as

The Infamous Stringdusters are pickin' up the country on their tour. There are free downloads available on their myspace page. To anyone who has not been lucky enough to see them yet,

The guys from the US Navy Bluegrass Band, Country Current, are the featured guests this week on Kyle Cantrell's Studio Special series on XM Satellite Radio (Channel 14 - Bluegrass Junction). The show aired this morning at 8 AM EST,

John and I have been on a little road trip this week. The business of bluegrass brought us down out of the mountains of Southwest Virginia to visit Music City USA. We've been in Nashville since Monday afternoon, and have