Bluegrass festival/concert news

Jimbo Whaley has a combo CD/DVD project set for release this weekend, An Evening With Jimbo Whaley & Friends. It was recorded (filmed) live at the Smith Family Theater in Pigeon Forge, TN in March of this year, and the

The Enchantment, the upcoming banjo/piano duet recording from Chick Corea and B?©la Fleck, which Brance briefly described earlier this month, is due for release May 22 on Concord Records. The making of this highly-anticipated CD is the focus of a short

The Steep Canyon Rangers will celebrate the imminent release of their new recording, titled Lovin' Pretty Women, this weekend in Ashville, NC. The band will be performing at The Grey Eagle in Ashville at 9 PM on Saturday the 19th. Joining

Richard Harrington has a nice piece in this morning's Washington Post on the current Alison Krauss & Union Station tour featuring the music - and the person - of Tony Rice. "My love and admiration for Tony goes back to what

Bluegrass music travels to Carnegie Hall next weekend, May 12, 2007, when Ryan Holladay and Sierra Hull host The Carnegie Hall Family Concert Bluegrass Celebration. The concert includes these two young (Ryan is 14, Sierra is 15) multi-instrumentalists along with

Bluegrass singer/songwriter/guitarist Gary Ferguson and resonator guitarist David Miner are set to tour in Ireland from July 13-29, 2007. The tour will include concerts as well as workshops on Dobro and songwriting. You can find dates, info and links to their

Merlefest 2007 is over and the reports are that it was a spectacular festival. I've heard several people recount for me the highlights of this year's event. But my friend Scott Rouse, a Nashville based producer, had what must have

Merlefest 2007 begins this week. I'm sure this year will see another large crowd at the festival, but what about those of us that can't make it? Well this year, we can listen in online. All week long mvyradio.com will be

In a very disturbing piece of news, it seems someone is attempting to scam people with a fake festival site. The promoters of the Mandolin Farm Bluegrass Festival are asking people to carefully check the url before purchasing tickets online. Their

Here's another post from our all-the-more regular correspondent, Richard Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Recently we posted a story