Bluegrass festival/concert news

Brance made mention last week of the Mountain Song Festival in NC, put on by Steep Canyon Rangers to benefit the local Boys & Girls Club. Graham Sharp from SCR tells us that the festival on 9/13 was a big

High water and bad weather will not stop the 2008 Walnut Valley Festival from starting this coming Wednesday (9/17). So say festival organizers in the face of a mandatory evacuation of the campground this past Friday. Their most recent press release

The storm surge from Hurricane Ike is already causing problems in coastal Texas, and now wreaking havoc for people planning to camp out early in Winfield. The Walnut Valley Festival isn't scheduled to begin until next Wednesday (9/17), and the Winfield

The Steep Canyon Rangers have decided that those who haven't seen them live, shouldn't be excluded from the experience. To that end, they've began posting live tracks from recent shows on their myspace page. Currently there are two tracks from

We posted a few weeks ago when it was announced that Mountain Heart would be opening a number of shows for country rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd. With those shows coming up this week, the guys are preparing a few surprises to

Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko's cross-cultural musical adventure, Africa To Appalachia, will be released in the US next Tuesday (September 9) with a lengthy tour of the states starting on September 15. Stone, the Canadian banjoist, and Sissoko, a Malian kora

Many celebrations took place around the country this holiday weekend. I'm sure bluegrass was well represented at many of them. In Milwaukee, WI the celebration included both bluegrass and Harleys. The Harley Davidson 105th anniversary celebration was held in downtown Milwaukee

Tennessee Shines is a new live music radio show which debuts tonight (8/27) on WDVX, broadcasting at 89.9 FM in Knoxville, TN and via live audio streaming at wdvx.xom. The two hour show will be hosted by Jim Lauderdale and

Mountain Heart is scheduled to play three shows with southern rock legends Lynyrd Skynyrd in September. Fiddler Jim van Cleve tells us that show promoter Kent Martin was so impressed with the band that he started talking with them about performing

The Sparrow Quartet will be kicking off this year's Woodstock Film Festival with a concert. The concert will take place at the Bearsville Theater west of downtown Woodstock, on October 1, 2008. The Sparrow Quartet is lead by Abigail Washburn and