Events

Mountain Heart is set to start work next week on their next CD - a live recording to be tracked at a number of shows over the next few weeks. Mandolinist Adam Steffey told us this morning that they had long

Downtown Nashville will soon become home to the 2007 CMA Music Festival. The event is held annually in downtown Nashville, TN and features over 70 hours of concerts in four days. Each year upwards of 160,000 country music fans attend

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

Next Friday, May 25, voting members of the International Bluegrass Music Association can expect to start seeing their first round ballots for the 2007 International Bluegrass Music Awards. The winners are determined in three ballots over the course of the summer,

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