Bluegrass print media news

  • Young grassers in The Boston Globe

    | by

    This past Sunday's (5/17) edition of The Boston Globe carried a feature by Scott Alarik about the emergence of more and more young folk artists on the scene. The article has a Boston angle, as you might expect, but it does

  • Jerusalem Ridge Magazine – Update

    | by

    Last July we told you about a new magazine that was planned to start publication in the Fall. Due to an unfortunate chain of circumstances, not least the severe state of the US economy, Ron Malec's proposed Jerusalem Ridge Magazine,

  • Roland White on Fretboard Journal talk radio

    | by

    Fretboard Journal magazine's online talk radio show last week featured a lengthy interview with Roland White. They talk about both he and brother Clarence's music careers and about the new Clarence White instructional book/CD package that Roland has recently published. Clarence and

  • Spring 2009 BMP has arrived

    | by

    The May/June edition of Bluegrass Music Profiles helped to fill the mail box this past Saturday morning. This latest edition of the glossy bi-monthly magazine has as its main feature a six-page, wide-ranging profile of that prolific bluegrass song writing duo

  • Bluegrass Out Of The Shadows at Berklee

    | by

    Berklee Today, the quarterly alumni magazine of The Berklee College Of Music, has a feature on the school's embrace of country, bluegrass and Americana music as part of their instructional program. Written by Christopher John Treacy, and entitled Out Of The

  • Does RollingStone know its Bluegrass?

    | by

    Does RollingStone know its bluegrass? Take a few minutes to read this article, recently published on the magazine's website, and then answer in our poll. Here's the introduction. It's been more than 60 years since Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, unleashed

  • Bluegrass alive and well…in Europe

    | by

    We are always encouraged to see main stream media coverage of our beloved musical genre. When that coverage is in a major news outlet like the New York Times, it's even better. Yesterday the NYT published a story in its "Arts"

  • Greg Cahill on recent UK/Ireland tour

    | by

    The following article, originally titled Greg Cahill - Reflections From On The Road, appears in the current issue of British Bluegrass News (Spring 2009). He composed it upon returning from a three week tour by Special Consensus in the British

  • Billboard Bluegrass Chart Returns

    | by

    During the summer of 2008, Billboard Magazine reduced the number of charts included in the print edition of the magazine. The Bluegrass chart was one of the casualties. Removed from the print edition, it was only available to subscribers via