Bluegrass radio news

Be sure to check in on the Grand Ole Opry broadcast this weekend, as they have taken on a bluegrass theme in recognition of IBMA week here in Nashville. The Friday and Saturday night radio shows will feature bluegrass artists,

Jen Hitt, production director for bluegrasscountry.org, stopped by to visit with us yesterday at Bluegrass Today booth at IBMA.The cyberstation, which provides a 24/7 bluegrass radio stream online, grew from Washington, DC's venerable WAMU radio station, where bluegrass music was

Béla Fleck appeared this past Monday on the This I Believe segment of NPR's Morning Edition program. The concept behind these recurring segments is to air radio essays from non-radio people, who write and read their contributions for the show. Béla

Barry Abernathy will be the featured guest today on The Story with Dick Gordon, aired on WUNC (North Carolina Public Radio). Barry is the banjo player with Mountain Heart, and performed previously with both Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and IIIrd

Banjo player extraordinaire, Alison Brown will be a featured performer on The Grand Ole Opry program this Saturday evening. She'll perform during the 9:00-9:30 p.m. and 12:30-1:00 a.m. segments, and though the Opry schedule doesn't say so, it's safe to presume

Studio Special, XM Satellite Radio's weekly program of live performance and interviews with bluegrass artists, has a mix of their most popular shows set to run during IBMA week. Instead of one new show, airing multiple times over the course of

We just heard from Fred Bartenstein about a special Osborne Brothers radio special he has been working on for nearly two years. It was produced by WNKU (Northern KY University) and Bgrass Inc., a nonprofit which Bartenstein chairs, dedicated to

Lorraine Jordan and nine of her fellow Daughters Of Bluegrass join Kyle Cantrell of XM Satellite Radio on this week's edition of Studio Special on XM Channel 14. They performed songs from the new CD, Back To The Well, and

It seems that we created a bit of confusion when we posted about the new Kenny & Amanda Smith Gospel CD, Tell Someone, a few weeks ago. We passed along the news that the CD was available from Kenny &

We just learned that Thomas Wyrot has joined Alecia Nugent's Band on banjo. Thomas had recently been performing as a guitarist with The Boohers, and before that with The Mark Newton Band, also on guitar. That makes the current lineup of