• Nechville on TV

    Upstart banjo builder Tom Nechville was profiled on last night's (10/28) edition of Minnesota Original on Twin Cities Public Televison. Tom takes the producers through a quick tour of his shop in Bloomington, and his revolutionary Heli-Mount design. You also get

  • Stefan Mönkemeyer – Life stories

    Stefan Mönkemeyer is a fingerstyle guitarist from Germany, with a new CD, Life stories - Acoustic solo guitar from the heart. There are 17 tracks on the album, including many of his own compositions along with a number of popular

  • Mast Farm Inn sessions

    We wrote earlier this year about the first in a planned series of unique Artist In Residence events at The Mast Farm Inn in North Carolina, sponsored by The Bluegrass Legacy Facebook group. This first was an intensive songwriter's workshop, hosted

  • Strange New World – Blue Moon Rising

    Blue Moon Rising is celebrating the release of their new CD, Strange New World, on Rural Rhythm Records. It's the first album by this critically-acclaimed band since a major reformation late in 2009. West found himself bandless last fall when founding

  • Monroe Crossing Live

    Minnesota's Monroe Crossing has released a live concert DVD, filmed in February of this year at the Chautauqua Fine Arts Theater in Mahtomedi, MN. Monroe Crossing Live contains 16 songs, primarily band originals, along with crowd favorites like Dueling Banjos, Orange

  • Backstage interviews from Mountain Stage

    Mountain Stage, the long-running live concert program from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, has added a new feature on their NPR.org web site. They now shoot backstage interviews with show guests, and post them on the individual show pages at NPR. Recent

  • The Rage unplugged

    What does a professional bluegrass act do when the power goes out at an outdoor festival? If you're Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, you just wander out into the audience and continue on with the show. Dave Roye (aka Crawdaddy Dave)

  • Amber Collins – Gravity

    We've posted several times about Amber Collins, a fine young bluegrass singer who fronts the southwestern Virginia band, No Speed Limit. Her solo project, On The Corner, was released this summer, and has generated a lot of attention for her

  • Roland White interview from Mel Bay

    Mel Bay has released a video interview with mandolin legend Roland White. In it, Erica Cantrell guides him through a discussion of his long and noteworthy career in bluegrass music, interspersed with musical interludes. Roland speaks of his time performing with