Kentucky's Cumberland River has profited handsomely from their close association with Justified, the FX network's popular television crime drama. The show is a modern-day western, set in notorious Harlan County, the band's hometown, and they had the opportunity to perform
Depending on where you stand on the question of multiple banjo bands, this video posted by the American Banjo Museum may delight or repulse you. It features the Next Generation Banjo Band from the Windsor Banjo Club performing an all-banjo arrangement
Here's the incomparable Béla Fleck with a solo banjo medley of Christmas favorites recorded in a 2009 Flecktones concert in Chicago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUlR8Jb__aM
As part of her year-long A Song A Day video project, Heather Berry has switched into Christmas mode this past week or so. Unsurprisingly, many of the videos include tracks from her current release, Have A Merry Berry Christmas, on Mountain
Lonesome River Band has released a promotional video, shot prior to and during a recent performance at the Hayes Performing Arts Center in Blowing Rock, NC. It features Sammy and the guys on a set of material from their current Rural Rhythm
We've posted several times this past two weeks about banjo superstar Alan Munde and his unexpected quintuple bypass surgery just before Thanksgiving. Talk about bouncing back quickly! Here is video of Alan at his first post-surgical jam this past weekend when
And speaking of Monroeville... The guys have released a live video highlighting their newest member, Eli Johnston. In so doing, they also demonstrate that fears about the future of traditional bluegrass music are both ignorant and unfounded. These six talented young men,
A second music video from Bearfoot's current Compass release, American Story, has been released through CMT. This makes the video eligible for fan voting in CMT's weekly Pure 12-Pack The song is Tell Me A Story, featuring Bearfoot vocalist Nora Jane
We've posted once before about Red Roots, a bluegrass Gospel trio consisting of Nicole, Nika and Natalie Taylor, identical, red-headed triplets from near the gulf coast of Mississippi. The girls have a new, long-form video for their song, Double Wide Church,
Here's a video of Alison Krauss performing at The White House on Monday, with the able assistance of Sierra Hull and Dan Tyminski. She was invited by the First lady as a part of a night of country music in Washington,
