• Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band on Woodsongs

    Peter Rowan and his bluegrass band - which we profiled during IBMA week - was a recent guest on the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. They performed selections from the new album, Legacy, from the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band. Rowan, celebrated

  • The Cleverlys do IBMA

    One of the groups that stirred things up during last weekend's IBMA Fan Fest was The Cleverlys, a concept act that mixes bluegrass music with sardonic and mildly-risque humor. Their shtick typically involves covers of pop mega-hits, delivered in a

  • More Bill Monroe tribute

    It's exciting to see all the attention that is being given to the upcoming Bill Monroe centennial in 2011. The ongoing campaign to have Bill Monroe memorialized with an official postage stamp from the US Postal Service is kicking into high

  • Monroeville on the Today Show

    Monroeville took part in a taping for The Today Show earlier this week. Correspondent Jenna Wolfe was in Gatlinburg, TN on Monday (9/27) shooting a piece on the Ole Smoky Distillery which boasts of being the first to offer lawful moonshine

  • Crooked Still at Lotus World

    In keeping with Sam Bush's Keynote admonition about supporting new music from a younger generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians, we offer this video clip of Crooked Still. It's of them at the Lotus World Music & Arts Festival in Bloomington,

  • 2010 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert

    This past Friday (9/24) saw the 2010 NEA National Heritage Fellowships Concert held in Bethesda, MD. This is an annual event, honoring the various recipients of each year's substantial fellowship awards. Among the 2010 recipients were bluegrass icons, Del McCoury and

  • Grascals NFL video

    Here is an amateur, hand-held video of The Grascals performing The Star Spangled Banner prior to kickoff of this past Sunday's NFL game between the Titans and Steelers in Nashville. It was posted by YouTube user thecouches. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6WbD2qPnaM

  • This just happened too

    Brian Smith of Leadership Artists just sent along this video of the TV commercial Mountain Heart cut for Honest Abe Log Homes. The spots were filmed last month, featuring the guys performing Honest Abe's new bluegrass theme song, composed by the

  • The Archetones – A New Kind of Season

    The Archetones are a new alt-county duo featuring Chris Henry on mandolin and electric guitar. Chris comes from the bluegrass Henry family -  mom Murphy and dad Red are both celebrated entrepreneurs and musicians - which also spawned another music pro