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Our friend Doug McKelway, who anchors the local news broadcasts for WJLA TV in Washington, DC, was invited to The Del McCoury Band's sound check yesterday prior to the start of DelFest in Cumberland, MD. Doug is also a fine banjo

Earlier this week I happened to be talking to Jeanie Stanley, who reminded me that this holiday weekend she will be attending Dr. Ralph Stanley's 38th Annual Memorial Weekend Bluegrass Festival, which uncle Ralph holds every year in honor of

We heard yesterday from Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters, filling us in on the band's ongoing European tour. The guys have been there since the beginning of May, and will be appearing in Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic until

This past weekend's USA Weekend, a magazine supplement to many of America's weekend newspapers, has, as its feature article, an assessment of the 10 top places to hear authentic American music. As far as the magazine is concerned the top

McCoury Music and High Sierra Music have posted a YouTube video of Dierks Bentley rehearsing his hit song I've Got A Lot Of Leaving Left To Do with The Del McCoury Band in preparation for their joint appearance at DelFest

Jan de Mooy from The Netherlands sent along a number of terrific photos he took during the European World of Bluegrass festival in Voorthuizen earlier this month. He captured images of of 12 different bands on stage, from 9 different European

Singer/songwriter Liz Meyer wrote in to let us know how the EWOB festival went this past weekend. She tells us the weather was great in Voorthuizen and the music was even better. For three days this small Dutch town was teaming

Who says you can't go home again? Special Consensus mandolinist Ashby Frank is profiled in his hometown paper, The Lexington Dispatch, in Davidson County, NC. Ashby was raised in nearby Tyro, and is given the hero's welcome in the this lengthy

CMT.com's Country Music Blog has just published Merlefest remembrances from three bluegrass artists. Rhonda Vincent, Blue Highway (Tim Stafford) and Sierra Hull share some thoughts about last weekend's mega-fest in North Wilkesboro, NC. Sierra had an especially poignant memory to cherish

If you weren't among the reported 76,000 in attendance at Merlefest last weekend, you can get a taste of the proceedings online. Our friend Ted Lehmann has dozens of photos posted on his blog, Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms. Ted was on