• Great music on Austin City Limits

    This weekend's edition of Austin City Limits is packed with stellar bluegrass and acoustic music. Steve Martin is the headliner - along with his trusty band, Steep Canyon Rangers - and young acoustic songstress Sarah Jarosz is performing as well. Both

  • Alison Brown in American Songwriter

    American Songwriter has a nice interview with banjo maven and Compass Records President Alison Brown, on the occasion of her DVD release, Live At Blair. This is a concert with her quartet, along with multi-instrumentalist Joe Craven. The quartet is consists

  • Graves Mountain interviews

    Rural Rhythm has released another video in support of their new live album, All Star Jam, a multi-artist extravaganza recorded at the Graves Mountain Festival of Music in Syria, VA this past summer. It includes performances from many of the artists

  • Jayme Stone – Room of Wonders

    Award-winning Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone has a new CD, Room of Wonders, which features his take on traditional dance music from all across the globe. He is assisted by Casey Driessen on fiddle, Grant Gordy on guitar and Greg Garrison on

  • 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