Steve Martin may not have taken home the IBMA Banjo Player of the Year Award, but he is taking his own Deering Goodtime Banjo model with him on the road this month. Deering has created a special headstock brand for
Bluegrass festival/concert news
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Rounder celebrates the big 4-0
It seems like only yesterday that we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of bluegrass music, marked by the first Grand Ole Opry performance in 1946 by the "Original Blue Grass Band:" Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, Chubby
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Steve Martin and The Rangers on Letterman tonight
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers will be musical guests on tonight's (10/5) edition of The Late Show with David Letterman. The show airs on CBS at 11:35 p.m. (ET/PT). They are on tour together throughout October to promote Martin's
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Rural Rhythm and Graves Mountain in 2010
Wednesday night at IBMA, we spent an hour or so at a special Rural Rhythm Records showcase, held to highlight a number of their top acts, and to announce a major initiative for 2010. Next year, they will celebrate 55
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Adam Steffey live at the Station Inn
Adam Steffey will be hosting a special CD release event this evening in Nashville - and we are all invited! The CD, One More For the Road, was released on Tuesday and Sugar Hill and BMI have teamed up to sponsor
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Winfield Winners 2009
The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas is now over, along with the national level competitions so closely associated with the festival. The winners of the contests have been announced via email, but are not currently featured on the festival website.
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Ask Sam – and win tickets to Classical Americana
We've posted a number of times recently about the special Nashville Symphony concert this weekend, billed as Classical Americana. It will feature a number of prominent bluegrass and Americana artists performing with the Symphony, including Sam Bush, Alison Brown, Byron
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Bluegrass Junction at the MACC
Bluegrass Junction, the all-bluegrass channel on Sirius-XM, is dedicating much of their programming over this holiday weekend to audio from the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival in July. The annual festival features performances from top bluegrass entertainers who appear for
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Fleck, Meyer, Hussain – The Melody Of Rhythm
The Melody Of Rhythm - Triple Concerto & Music For Trio, is the name of a new collaboration CD released today (9/25) on E1 Music (formerly Koch Records). It features B?©la Fleck on banjo, Edgar Meyer on bass and Zakir
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Grey Fox videos
Even more bluegrass videos! Our friend Fred Robbins sent along a note about what he did on his summer vacation - at Grey Fox. "This year, for the first time in 33 years since I've been attending Berkshire/Winterhawk/Grey Fox off and on,