Events

This post is a contribution from Dave Roye. Thursday evening was a pretty good turnout considering one of the biggest fundraiser's (Josh Graves) was going on as well as rain! I arrived at 7pm just in time for Heather Berry

A number of IBMA sponsored teacher workshops are scheduled for the middle of February, designed to familiarize classroom teachers, school administrators, home school parents and education students with bluegrass music - and how they might incorporate it in their own

The 2006 San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival kicks off today, Feb 2nd and continues through Feb 12th. The festival features more than just concerts, it's an entertainment event. There are concerts from both national and local acts held at

We will have a number of correspondents at the 32nd Annual convention of the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) in Nashville, TN this weekend. Keep an eye on Bluegrass Today for any news or interesting

Anyone heading to Nashville for the SPBGMA convention this weekend might want to catch a special benefit show on Thursday night. The show is the McReynolds Memorial Bluegrass Music Spectacular and will be held on Thursday February 2 at The

We have posted several times recently about Berklee College Of Music's acceptance of traditional stringed instruments like banjo and mandolin as principal instruments of study at the school. One of the architects of this change was August Watters, Associate Professor

In little over a month one of the largest jam sessions and pickin' parties will take place at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center in Hampton, VA. It's the Cabin Fever Pickin' Party. The event takes place March 3-5, 2006.

Multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Steve Smith, based in Las Cruces, New Mexico, will be bringing his music - and his band, Hard Road - back east for a number of shows in February 2006. Steve is a native of eastern Virginia,

A while back I posted about Buddy Merriam and Backroads - in Ireland. The band is currently in the middle of that tour and Buddy just emailed me an update. It sure sounds like they are having a great time.

StarPulse.com is reporting that Marty Stuart will be appearing on Late Night with Conan O'Brien tonight, January 24th 2006. Tuesday, January 24th, Stuart will be in NBC's Rockefeller Center studios to make a guest appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.