• Anna & Elizabeth’s Tiny Desk Concert

    Old time musical artists and storytellers Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle, who perform simply as Anna & Elizabeth, were featured recently on an edition of NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts. They used the opportunity to demonstrate the crankie, a folk arts tradition that vastly

  • LRB live from Charlotte

    Betsy White shared this video of Lonesome River Band performing at last month's Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI. She captured them doing Daniel Salyer's Jack Up The Jail, which the band recorded for their Still Learning album in 2010. The live

  • I Was Made For Loving You video from Rawhide

    Warning... This might be the cutest bluegrass music video you've seen in a while. It was created a couple of years ago by Belgian banjo player Thierry Schoysman for the opening track of Rawhide's 2012 release, The Dark Is Barking. Thierry noticed his

  • Shotgun Holler on CMT

    It's a long way from Harlan County, Kentucky to the bright lights and big city ways of Los Angeles, CA. But bluegrass boys Shotgun Holler made the trip out to Culver City and the Sony TV Studios for an appearance

  • Rooftop Graveyard video from Mile Twelve

    Another inventive contemporary bluegrass band from Boston? What do they do, grow 'em in a lab? Young grassers with something to say are clearly finding their way to Boston these days, making the city fertile ground for the sort of pop-influenced,

  • Blow Me Away video from the Steeps

    The Steep Canyon Rangers have released a new music video from their upcoming Rounder album, Radio. It's for one which songwriter (and SCR banjo man) Graham Sharp calls a "good ol' bluegrass tornado song," Blow Me Away. The video was shot and edited

  • Slocan Ramblers offer video sneak peek

    Toronto's Slocan Ramblers have release a video seek peak from their upcoming second album, Coffee Creek, due to be released this month. It features scenes of the guys in the studio against some music from the new record. The band is

  • War Against Silence with the Bankesters

    Corey Smith, guitarist with modern grassers, Ash Breeze, has launched a promising new YouTube channel he calls War Against Silence. The concept is to create music videos that pair promising young vocalists with music that is more widely popular as