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On Tuesday, Bela Fleck's Trio! (Bela, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty) performed in Boston, and they also gave a free clinic for students at the Berklee College of Music in the afternoon. Berklee students were also admitted to the Tuesday
Here's a great photo that was sent to us via email. Though details are sketchy, it has long been rumored that the Beatles had initially wavered between bluegrass and rhythm and blues as the vehicle for their musical energies.
Mandolin Master Chris Thile has been a Star Wars fan as long as I've known him. In fact the first time I met Chris was in line to buy tickets for Episode I. I was living in Nashville at the
The following is a statement from Sammy Shelor, in which he comments on and responds to the many rumors that have been circulating about him and the future of Lonesome River Band. We have enabled commenting on this post
The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that James Monroe (son of Bill), will open a bluegrass music park in Franklin, KY in the spring of 2006. The site is just north of the KY/TN border, about 45 miles from Nashville.
Collings Mandolins and Guitars of Austin, Texas, and the Mandolin Cafe will be giving away a Collings MT2 to some lucky individual in the near future.
Starting October 1, 2005, visitors to the Mandolin Cafe web site will have an opportunity
And speaking of Vassar Clements...
Ampersand Records has made some video footage of Vassar in the studio available on their web site. It is a fairly large file, but does offer a memorable glimpse of a master at work. This
Steve Huber, owner and builder of the popular Huber Banjo line, has stepped back from performing to focus his attention on banjo production, and just played his last show with The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band. Steve expressed a mix
This past May, more than forty bluegrass bands from all over Europe and the US descended on the tiny Dutch town of Voorthuizen to showcase at the 2005 European World Of Bluegrass (EWOB) Convention. Like its parent organization, the
We just received a notice from Dave Schenkman of Turtle Hill Banjo Company in Bryantown, MD that a recent shipment of three new Turtle Hill Woody banjos included one empty box, from which a banjo had been removed, and the
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