Bluegrass film/movie news

  • Lionsgate Music Signs the Infamous Stringdusters

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

  • IIIrd Tyme Out concert DVD now available

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    The long-awaited concert DVD release from IIIrd Tyme Out is finally available. The video is the companion to their recent live CD, Round III at the MAC, filmed during the same concert performance in November 2005 at the Mountain Arts

  • Four Days Of Infamy – Redux

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    Earlier this evening John and I had the opportunity to attend the official screening of the 30 minute video Four Days Of Infamy. The video was produced by Craig Havighurst of String Theory Media and takes the viewer on the

  • Reels and Reels

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    Located in Rochester, NY, the George Eastman House is a museum of photography and film housed in the mansion of the late George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak Company. The museum is an independent non-profit, dedicated to educating people