Bluegrass Videos

Back in the late summer of 2008, we first shared news about country crooner Joe Diffie making a return to bluegrass music, from whence he came before Nashville made him a star in the 1990s. Rounder signed him to a

Recording King is so stoked about the debut of their new Elite model banjo (which we profiled last December), that they have released a video extolling its virtues. It was shot in the shop where the banjos are set up

Del McCoury shares his remembrance of the genesis of the first bluegrass festival in 1967 while discussing how that experience led to his desire to host his own festival in this promotional video for DelFest, held over Memorial Day weekend

The second episode in The Farewell Drifters' song-by-song video countdown is out, offering a new track overview each week from their upcoming CD, Yellow Tag Mondays, due June 8. This week we get a taste of track #5, All We Need,

We had posted earlier this year about the first-ever DC Bluegrass Festival, which was held March 27 in McLean, VA. Much of our pre-event focus was on banjo legend Bill Emerson, and him being the recipient of the first Washington Monument

Bluegrass heavyweights and former Lonesome River Bandmates Dan Tyminski and Ronnie Bowman will be touring together this spring and summer. The two have long been known for how well their voices blend and complement each others, and have not performed

I've been enjoying the new Crooked Still CD, Some Strange Country, since I found a copy in yesterday's mail. Like their previous 3 albums, this one is a start-to-finish masterpiece, with innovative arrangements of traditional folk music and the band's

Cadillac Sky has released a second video on the making of the their upcoming CD, Letters in the Deep. You'll see our heroes working in the studio, sharing thoughts about the process, and engaged in the ritualistic quest for the

The Farewell Drifters have decided to use video introduce the music from their upcoming CD, Yellow Tag Mondays. They will drop one each week leading up to the album's June 8 release. Here's the first, for River Song. This one has

We heard recently from Gian Luca Naldi, banjo picker with Italian bluegrassers Bononia Grass. The band has been recording in Bologna, working on their second CD release, which they hope to have out sometime this summer. Luca sent along this video