Bluegrass film/movie news

The bluegrass world has been abuzz since it was announced that a biopic is going to be made about the life of Bill Monroe. Movies about music stars’ lives have proved very successful, and I hope Bill’s will follow in

After a handful of delays lasting several years, Mark Meatto's film, How To Grow A Band, is finally scheduled to open in April. The project is an in-depth look at Chris Thile's ambitious composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind, which he wrote

A 4 minute trailer has been released from The Porchlight Sessions, a new documentary film from Anna Schwaber that seeks to provide a more accurate glimpse into the culture of bluegrass music and bluegrass people than is common provided in

We've posted several times about The Mountain Music Project, a documentary film which covers a musical journey of discovery from Appalachia to Nepal. The project follows a pair of Virginia pickers, Tara Lindhart and Danny Knicely, as they travel through the mountains

We had extensive coverage last week of the momentous tribute offered to mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore at a benefit concert in Roanoke, VA on February 19. The show featured performances by artists as diverse as Punch Brothers and Seldom Scene,

Peter Rowan has always been something of a flamboyant figure, perhaps unintentionally. From a skinny kid playing with one of Bill Monroe's most radical versions of The Blue Grass Boys, through stints as a yodeling rocker in Seatrain, and on

We heard yesterday from Red Line Studios, the folks creating the upcoming Dave Evans documentary film, Last of the Breed: The Dave Evans Story. Work on the film is well underway, which will cover Dave's rough and tumble life from childhood up

Gabrielle Gray, Executive Director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM) in Owensboro KY, made a fund raising visit to the Northeast, showing a clip of IBMM’s documentary film Powerful: Bill Monroe Remembered, in the Boston suburb of Brookline Monday

Charlie Louvin —Still Rattlin' The Devil's Cage is the title of a new documentary film released in December 2011. A part of the legendary Louvin Brothers duet with his brother Ira, Charlie lost his battle with cancer last year, but not before

Young English banjo player John Breese recently graduated from the University of Southampton, having completed a year-long Masters course in Music, majoring in classical guitar. For one of his modules Breese made a film Bluegrass & Old-Time: An Exploration of the