We've posted twice recently about Ohio's Denison University, and their new academic focus on bluegrass within their music program. Beginning with the Fall '10 semester, students can complete their BA in music with a concentration in bluegrass. Bluegrass isn't new to
Cadillac Sky's Bryan Simpson and Matt Menefee found a novel way to promote a show in Zumbrota, MN. Simpson fell back on his prior work experience in sales, and took Matt door-to-door to invite folks in the neighborhood out to the
The latest episode of Sam Bush TV finds Sammy showing off some of his many prized mandolins, starting with Hoss, the 1937 F-5 with the block inlays that has been long associated with his music.
Also with a new video is Patty Loveless, from her Mountain Soul II album. The record again puts Patty in an acoustic setting, and celebrates both the traditional music she heard and played before her huge success in country music, and
The Farewell Drifters have released a new music video for the song Everyone Is Talking, which will be included on their next CD, Yellow Tag Mondays, expected in May 2010. Zach Bevill, singer/songwriter/guitarist with the Drifters tells us that they were
Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for their impressive Super Bowl victory. I know that their are plenty of Who Datz in the bluegrass nation, and I'm sure they are savoring the moment. Once again, the commercials between game segments were
Sugar Hill has announced, perhaps with a touch of irony, that the new CD from The Infamous Stringdusters will be released on 4/20. Things That Fly marks something of a departure for the band, as they chose to work Gary Paczosa
We heard this week from Phil Bankester, pére of the singing Bankester Family of Illinois, and a video producer with Genuine Human Productions in Nashville. Phil was at The Station Inn on Tuesday for the weekly Mashville Brigade show to
Bulagrian bluegrass songstress Lilly Drumeva has a new CD on Polysound Records. Lovin' You was recorded in both Bulgaria, with her band Lilly Of The West, and in Czech Republic, where she recorded with Czech grassers Monogram. The album features covers
The Dixie Bee-Liners will soon be releasing a video of their single Heavy. The song, which appears on the Bee-Liners' recent release Susanville, heavily features mountain dulcimer and fiddle. Director Chris Connor and the band shot the video on location in
