Bluegrass Videos

With so much of the world focused this week on the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, it seems fitting that a video of Chinese bluegrass has been posted on YouTube. Here is Mei Han's Red Chamber picking a solid version

Blue Highway's resophonic guitar master Rob Ickes has a new project released this week (8/8). Contemporary Dobro Artistry is a CD/DVD set from Mel Bay Publications that offers both CD audio and DVD video of Rob in a variety of live

Y'all Wire, a large country music video web site, has announced their Top 8 Bluegrass Videos for 2008 to date. The video ratings are based on the site's Multivariate Audience Meter, which measures a video's popularity of "audience engagement." In

The July 21, 2008 issue of Newsweek magazine included a feature on banjo player, vocalist and songwriter Abigail Washburn and her current touring and recording venue, Sparrow Quartet. The magazine's Brian Braiker caught up with Abby and fellow quartet members B?©la

We got a note from Ron Spears, mandolinist and tenor singer with David Parmley & Continental Divide. He tells us that the band is still working on their next CD, to be released on Pinecastle Records, for whom Parmley had recorded

Earlier in the month we told you about the Dan Tyminski video for the title track from his album Wheels, released June 17 on Rounder Records. Rounder has revealed a little about the making of the video and the picturesque setting

If you like cute kids and bluegrass music, this video is bound to take you in. It's a documentary on The Muellers, a family bluegrass band from Maine, created by film students at nearby Colby College. It's up on YouTube in

Banjo builder Warren Yates has created a video that takes you into his shop for a bird's eye view of the skills and techniques he employs in creating a Yates Banjo - with a tantalizing peek at the much-heralded secret

The first music video from Dan Tyminski's Wheels CD has been released. It's for the title track, and can be viewed now at CMT.com. The video shows Dan and his band traveling the country by train, and rather than telling the

Rhonda Vincent fans can catch two of her new live performances online. CMT.com's Unplugged at Studio 330 features an episode with five live-in-the-studio songs and a number of interview clips with Rhonda. They play Gotta Start Somewhere, Good Thing Going, The