• Are you ready to go?

    So asks Lori King of Drakesville, IA of her husband Joe when it's time to head gigward. Lori and Joe perform with Bluegrass Addiction along with Gary Fisher and Scott Amos, and here's her entry in our Have Bass Will Travel

  • Upright bass urban dogsled

    We've seen a number of entries in our Have Bass Will Travel video contest from rural bassists making do in unique ways when it comes to transporting their instrument. This video from Dan Mendoza looks at the question from an urban

  • What’s wrong Granny?

    Here's another entry in our Have Bass Will Travel video contest, this time from bass man Donnie Lucas in Copper Hill, VA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlcmUWkuF48 There are still five days left to get your entry in. Six finalists will each get a free set

  • Bluegrass Jamming Essentials from AcuTab

    AcuTab Publications has released the fifth DVD in their Power Pickin' series designed to help serious students of bluegrass music improve their craft, and get more enjoyment from the time they spend with their instrument. Bluegrass Jamming Essentials - Play With

  • C-Sky to tour with Mumfords

    Cadillac Sky is set to tour this fall as the opening act for Brit folk rockers Mumford and Sons when they come across to perform in the US and Canada. Their musical styles seem like a great mix, and the

  • Paste: Punch Brothers are aliens

    There is much to report from and about Punch Brothers, Chris Thile's merry band of alt-bluegrass pranksters. Their current Nonesuch album, Antifogmatic, has just been released on vinyl for all you audiophiles out there. It is packaged with a copy of

  • Doghouse bass in a Mini Cooper?

    But of course! Gordon shows us how's it's done in his video entry for our Have Bass Will Travel contest. You, too, can enter to win fabulous prizes from Colorado Case, The Bass Strummit, D'Addario and AcuTab. Just make your own

  • Barry Bales video contest – new entry

    Entries are coming in for the Barry Bales Have Bass Will Travel video contest we are running on Bluegrass Today in conjunction with the recent release of his AcuTab bass instructional DVD. The contest promises to be a great deal

  • Enter Monroeville

    Another new young band! Monroeville has emerged from the dust-up that saw the members of Second Wind leave Barry Scott en masse in July. They have been active only a week, but much is expected from this talented bunch of pickers. Despite

  • No One You Know to Mountain Fever

    Mountain Fever Records has signed No One You Know to the label, and will release their new album, Calm Before The Storm on August 31. The West Virginia band features Rachel Burge on mandolin, Don Anderson on bass, Ramie Bennett on