Events

This past Friday evening (10/19), The Steep Canyon Rangers played a show here in Roanoke, VA. I was familiar with their recordings, and caught a few brief sets at IBMA, but this was my first chance to see them live

Here's another reminder about the Butch Baldassari benefit concert to be held tomorrow, October 22, on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. A long-time and greatly-beloved member of the mandolin community, Butch is battling an inoperable brain tumor,

Brance posted on Tuesday about the special Station Inn performance this week by Mashville Brigade and friends. The band was initially formed late in '06 by Ashby Frank and a number of other hot young pickers when Frank was living in

Two weeks ago at IBMA John and I, along with Brandi Hart of The Dixie Bee Liners, conducted a seminar, the official title being Establishing & Maintaining an Effective Web Presence. I thought I'd do a recap here of some

For many years now the legend of the Sidemen has lived on even though the group no longer performs at Nashville's Station Inn. In recent months, a new group of sidemen have come together to fill the void. They call themselves

We had posted back in August when Chris Thile and his merry band of super pickers announced a three day string of shows at Nashville's fabled Station Inn. They were, at the time of that posting, billed as The Tensions

OK... here is our final photo gallery from the 2007 IBMA Awards show on October 4 in Nashville. Special thanks to Tami Roth for getting us such superb photos. If you would like to see all of our coverage of the

As promised, we'll have a couple more photo galleries from last week's IBMA festivities in Nashville. Here is a batch of photos from the party held backstage at The Grand Ole Opry house just prior to Thursday's International Bluegrass Music

Jon Glik's fiddle playing can be heard on some of my favorite records. Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a huge Del McCoury fan. Don't Stop The Music may be my all time favorite McCoury album, and Glik's fiddle plays

During an IBMA week conversation with John Eberle of Americana Mastering, an excellent suggestion for a new IBMA Award category came up. John remarked that, given the degree to which bluegrass artists and fans appreciate the subtleties of acoustic instrument tonality,