Events

I just got off the phone with Kip Martin. He was telling me about quite a gathering that will be taking place tomorrow night, August 5th, at the Station Inn in Nashville. Kip is playing bass with Darren Beachley and

IBMA has just announced that Wichita Rutherford will host the first ever World of Bluegrass podcast live on the web today, Thurs. August 4, 2005. They plan for the podcast to be posted online twice monthly. The full text of

Once again, Rhonda Vincent has been forced to cancel some shows owing to a sudden hospitalization. According to her fan club president, she was taken to the hospital for some tests to determine the reason why she had become severely

Alison Krauss & Union Station's most recent CD release doesn't contain any new recordings, though there are bonus video tracks included on the disk. Home on the Highways is a retrospective containing tracks from a number of different previously-released projects,

IBMA recently revised the lineup for the 2005 Fan Fest (October 28-30 in Nashville). Read the press release... BLUEGRASS FAN FEST 2005 October 28, 29, 30 Nashville Convention Center - Nashville, Tennessee USA Sponsored by MARTHA WHITE, SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO, MARTIN GUITARS and BLUEGRASS

The Lowell Folk Festival in Lowell, MA takes place July 29-31. The sole ambassador of bluegrass music at this year's event is Dale Ann Bradley. From the Lowell Folk Festival website: Like her eastern Kentucky sisters and predecessors, Dale Ann is blessed

I've compiled a list of links to the candidates from ballot 2 of the 2005 IBMA awards ballots. This list is not exhaustive (though it was exhausting to put together). It includes all candidates I could find a link for

Bluegrass Today will be providing "live blog" coverage during the IBMA World Of Bluegrass week in Nashville from October 24-30, 2005. In case the term is not familiar, "live blogging" means that we will be posting throughout the week from