• Love Guru with a banjo

    From time to time the banjo makes an appearance in a movie. Opening this Friday, June 20, 2008, The Love Guru, starring Mike Myers, is the latest movie to contain a scene with some bluegrass music and a banjo present. The

  • Sierra Hull on the set

    How many of us would look favorably on the notion of returning to high school after having reached adulthood. Not many, I would guess. For most of us, our teen aged years were busy, confusing and often highly-stressful times. For one

  • Modern Parables with a bluegrass soundtrack

    If you've ever read the Gospel accounts of Jesus' life, you've run across these stories he would tell called parables. They are stories meant to teach a lesson. Sometimes modern day readers might find difficulty connecting with the cultural context of

  • Lionsgate Music Signs the Infamous Stringdusters

    For The Infamous Stringdusters, things just couldn't get much better. The band's debut CD, Fork In The Road, was very well received, as have been their live performances. The band walked away from IBMA's 2007 award show with three awards.

  • Sierra Hull spreads her wings

    Sierra Hull, the prodigious young singer and mandolin player, who has a debut Rounder album, Secrets, set for release on May 6, has landed a part in the film about Billy Graham's early life, currently being shot on location in

  • Bela Fleck film wins fan choice award

    Earlier this month, Bela Fleck's documentary film, Throw Down Your Heart, was premiered at the South by Southwest (SXSW) film festival in Austin, TX. SXSW is a 5 day festival that is a combination of trade show and festival for

  • Bela Fleck – Throw Down Your Heart

    Cross-genre and cross-cultural banjo icon Béla Fleck journeyed through several African nations last year in an effort to learn more about the music and people from whence the banjo originated. He visited Uganda, Tanzania, Gambia and Mali and met and

  • Julia’s Banjo

    Rob and Alan Fennah are brothers with an interest in music and performance arts. Living in the UK they formed the band Alternative Radio in 1981. Their sound is most definitely not bluegrass. But recently the duo have been pursuing

  • Round III at the MAC DVD

    The many fans of IIIrd Tyme Out can now order their live concert DVD from the band's web site. Entitled Round III at the MAC - Live, it was filmed at the same concert performance in November 2005 as their

  • Zooey Deschanel & The Mill Creek Boys

    A few of Hollywood's stars were rubbing shoulders with bluegrass musicians recently. The Mill Creek Boys played, last Friday night, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The gig was an end of shooting party for M. Night Shyamalan's new movie, The