Bluegrass print media news

The Knoxville News Sentinel ran a feature on Sunday (8/12) on Cheerful Diligence, a group of young bluegrass pickers from Russia who are spending their summer in East Tennessee. The five college students are in the US as a part

Banjo For Dummies, the book from Wiley Publishing we first told you about last December, is now available for sale. Written by Bill Evans, noted banjo instructor and subject of three popular AcuTab DVDs, this is the first bluegrass release

Dean Hoffmeyer - banjo playing photographer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch - has posted a very nice multi-media slide show of images from the 72nd Annual Galax Old Fiddlers Convention on the Times-Dispatch web site. The photos are splendid and truly capture

The Lubbock Avalanche Journal ran a nice feature last week about Camp Bluegrass, the annual week-long bluegrass immersion workshop hosted by nearby South Plains College in Levelland, TX. The camp ran from July 22-27, and the piece in the Avalanche

Here are three interviews we found this past few days in local newspapers' coverage of upcoming entertainment events. First up is King Wilkie, whose Reid Burgess was interviewed in The Dallas Morning News on July 23. He spoke with Mario Tarradell

Former Dillards bass player Mitch Jayne has just released his latest book of fiction. Fiddler's Ghost is the story of a young couple who move to a small Ozark town where the locals folks live by customs that seem generations out

Now in it's 11th year, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine has just released a series of CD-ROM compilations containing articles and tablatures from the Best of the First Ten Years of the magazine. The series consists of 4 discs, each pulling articles on

Bluegrass mandolinist, singer and band leader David Davis was the subject of an interview this past weekend in the Seattle Times. He and his band, The Warrior River Boys, performed at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival on July 21, and spoke

Summer's barely begun and Gene Senyak's research into banjo camps, college programs, and resident workshops has already taken hin to four camps, three college programs, and one resident workshop...that's over 3,000 miles at $3/gallon! His first field report is

Mix Magazine is one of the top publications for the studio/technology aspect of the recording industry. The magazine's usual focus is on new gear, new trends in mixing, big projects that get a lot of attention, and the occasional studio