• Audie Blaylock and his Mustang

    Audie Blaylock was featured on the front page of the Auburn, IN Evening Star this past Friday (6/20) - but the article had nothing to do with his heralded career in bluegrass music. It turns out that Audie is not just

  • Stephanie Ledgin photo auction

    Award-winning photo-journalist Stephanie P. Ledgin has announced that her entire photo exhibition, From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music, is for sale by auction. This once-in-a-lifetime, winner-takes-all auction will reap the winning bidder 40 select custom prints from

  • John Santa interview on WFDU

    Since we first posted about Bluegrass Is My Second Language - A Year In The Life Of An Accidental Bluegrass Musician, the new book by John Santa, we've heard from readers who have been deeply touched by its story. Well, John

  • Blue Highway featured in Guitar Player

    Blue Highway has found itself once again in the pages of Guitar Player magazine, surely among the most widely-circulated periodicals for musicians in the world. Resonator guitarist Rob Ickes was profiled in those pages in February of 2007, and both he

  • Chris Thile in Fretboard Journal

    The Summer 2008 issue of The Fretboard Journal is set to be mailed to subscribers next week, with a cover feature on Chris Thile. The piece is an interview, conducted by fellow mandolin trailblazer David Grisman, who graced the cover

  • Dr. Ralph, on stage and in print

    Earlier this week I happened to be talking to Jeanie Stanley, who reminded me that this holiday weekend she will be attending Dr. Ralph Stanley's 38th Annual Memorial Weekend Bluegrass Festival, which uncle Ralph holds every year in honor of

  • Bluegrass goes to UC Berkeley

    Here's a cool story that demonstrates a bluegrass, can-do attitude. Joel Sidney graduated yesterday from the University of California at Berkeley. Joel's story is unique though. His grade-point average was almost perfect, his degree in American Studies, the subject of his

  • Kudos to Bean Blossom

    This past weekend's USA Weekend, a magazine supplement to many of America's weekend newspapers, has, as its feature article, an assessment of the 10 top places to hear authentic American music. As far as the magazine is concerned the top

  • Follow-up: small world department

    In an interesting twist of fate, we found a connection between two recent stories that had run on Bluegrass Today earlier this month. Faithful readers will recall the story from May 7 about North Carolina mandolinist John Santa and his new