Bluegrass print media news

Monday's Washington Post included a special feature by Jedd Ferris, who explores the bluegrass scene in and around Nashville. Ferris, the managing editor of Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine in Charlottesville, VA, reminds readers about the historic links between bluegrass and Music

We hear from editor Richard F. Thompson that the Summer 2009 edition of British Bluegrass News is in the mail. The magazine is published quarterly by the British Bluegrass Music Association, and this issue is the first under the guidance of

Wall Street Journal recently ran an article, in their business management section (July 6 edition, page B1), with the story of how Martin Guitar Company has dealt with the recently slow economy. The company was determined not to lay off any

Today's Wall Street Journal has an article on Alison Brown and her company, Compass Records, that also includes brief interviews with three Compass artists who have recent releases - Dale Ann Bradley, Missy Raines, and Brown herself. The article - The

The New York Times travel section recently ran an article highlighting the 85th annual Ole Time Fiddler's and Bluegrass Festival in Union Grove, N.C. The article is a full two pages long and presents the festival and accompanying contest in a

The Bristol Heralnd Courier has a piece in this morning's paper from Claire Galofaro with a few updates concerning the auto accident early Monday morning involving two members of Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. Dr. Ralph's grandson, Nathan Stanley, and

Here's a little book that may be of interest to bluegrass loving parents and grandparents. It's a children's story by Sarah Martin Busse and Jacqueline Briggs Martin called Banjo Granny which chronicles how banjo playing and "granny magic" allowed a

If it seems like we are writing quite a bit about Steve Martin and his banjo CD, The Crow, quite a bit of late, it's only because the wider entertainment media is as well. Of course we'll always cover what's

Our beloved five string banjo is getting its props this week from the jazz world, with both the venerable Down Beat magazine and AllAboutJazz.com giving space to prominent banjo jazzers. Down Beat has Béla Fleck on the cover of its June

Noted bluegrass songwriter Mark "Brink" Brinkman is profiled in today's edition of The Columbus Dispatch. The focus of the piece is a new song of Brink's, With Love from Normandy, which he had performed at a Memorial Day celebration this past