Bluegrass festival/concert news

October 26, 2006 at 7PM the Boerner Botanical Gardens in Hales Corners, WI will be home to a concert that is being held to raise money for The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The event features three bands, raffle items, jamming

This post is another contribution from Richard Thompson, who has provided several special pieces to Bluegrass Today as we recall Bill Monroe today. In light of this ten year anniversary, many aficionados have organised special events to mark the occasion. Last

We also heard last week from Fred Carpenter, who runs The Violin Shop in Nashville. He shared some of his plans for IBMA week later this month, which will include their participation during the Grand Masters Fiddle Contest (9/28-29), and

The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting two Monroe-Style Mandolin Camps this month. The first camp runs September 8-10 and the second one September 15-17, 2006. The camps feature some great instruction from Mike Compton, Skip Gorman, David Long, Red

Our friend Richard Hawkins over at The Bluegrass Ireland Blog is reporting that Crooked Still, the innovative Boston-based string band, is heading back to Ireland for a follow-up tour later this month. They made quite an impact when they visited

You may not be familiar with a band named G2, but we suspect that you may be before long. They are five young Swedish blugrass musicians, who teamed up in October 2005 with a plan to form a new, contemporary

The name Bradley Walker might not be that familiar to a lot of bluegrass fans, but you may have heard it whispered before in the halls at late night jam sessions at IBMA as one person quietly asked another who

For those of you in Ireland and Sweden, this weekend presents an opportunity to hear some great bluegrass music. Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver wll be performing at the Ulster American Folk Park in

We posted earlier this month with news that Vince Gill's upcoming tour would be including some bluegrass in the show. CMT.com has a news feature posted yesterday which expands on this story a bit. We had mentioned in that earlier post

You can find a list of the winners from this past weekend's Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, VA on the official festival web site. This year was the 71st annual event held in Galax, a convention that draws thousands of