Bluegrass print media news

No one who has attended one of Bill Evans' banjo workshops, or studied using one of his popular AcuTab banjo DVDs, would ever accuse him of being a dummy. In addition to his prominent work in music as a teacher,

The New York Times recently (Nov 28, 2006) ran an article titled String Theory: New Approaches to Instrument Design. You do have to register in order to read the article, but it's free and painless. The story's focus is on

Richard Harrington, of the Washington Post, wrote a story entitled The 12 Discs of Christmas, and Rhonda Vincent's Christmas CD, Beautiful Star: A Christmas Collection, is one of the 12. Harrington obviously enjoyed Rhonda's CD as he said some very nice

Continuing with a Bill Monroe/Neil Rosenberg theme... I recently had occasion to correspond with Neil about his upcoming book, The Music Of Bill Monroe, written with the late Charles Wolfe, and due for a 2007 release by the University of Illinois

Yesterday's edition of The Albany Herald (Albany, GA) ran a feature on Clyde Scott of BluegrassRadio.org. Clyde started the 24/7 streaming bluegrass site almost 3 years ago, and the article describes the time from his early days in broadcasting bluegrass over

The Lexington Herald ran a story yesterday about Ernie Thacker and how he has continued to perform despite his auto accident earlier this year. We've spoken about his accident and recovery before here on Bluegrass Today and we're glad to

A reader posted a question a few weeks back on The B, asking about the publication date for the Tony Rice biography currently being compiled by Tim Stafford and Caroline Wright. Our readers surely know Tim as a member of Blue

Yesterday's edition of The Knoxville News Sentinel published an interview with Ralph Stanley, written by Wayne Bledsoe. The initial thrust of the piece is Stanley's recent receipt of a National Medal of Arts Award. Continuing from there, the article also delves

We found a nice profile of Louise Scruggs in the November 13 edition of American Chronicle, which can be read online. She was married to banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs for more than 50 years when she passed away on February

I found an interesting piece on Xinhua online, an English language version of ChinaView.cn about a set of performances this weekend by Sparrow Quartet in Bejing. The group includes Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on banjos, with Casey Driessen on