Bluegrass radio news

The Grascals will join Eddie Stubbs tomorrow night (1/10) on WSM for a special 2 hour live radio show from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. They will appear from 8:00-10:00 p.m. (EST) on An Intimate Evening

National Public Radio's afternoon news and information show, All Things Considered, featured an interview with Merle Haggard yesterday (1/3) about his 2007 release, The Bluegrass Sessions. The Hag spoke with Melissa Block about his life at 70 years old and his

The folks at BluegrassCountry.org have a special program running this next two weeks, highlighting some of the live performances they have presented on their 24/7 bluegrass audio stream. The show is entitled Fantasy Festival at the Kampground of Our Minds, and

Sirius Bluegrass (Channel 65) is giving New Year's Eve over to Del McCoury, with 36 hours of back-to-back McCoury. Starting Monday (12/31) at noon and running throughout New Year's Day, Sirius Bluegrass will air encore presentations of their Hand Picked with

This weekend's two Grand Ole Opry broadcasts have much to recommend them to bluegrass fans. Tonight's show (12/28) will feature performances by The Grascals, Bradley Walker and Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press. The show is broadcast on WSM AM-650

Here's a late Christmas present from Sirius Bluegrass... Later this morning, they will present a live, in-studio performance of the music from Tony Trischka's award-winning recording, Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular. The CD features Tony in duet with some of the most

Niall Toner will be on Ireland's RT?â Radio 1 this week with the first two installments of his Nashville Sessions series, recorded while he was in attendance at the IBMA World Of Bluegrass convention earlier this fall. These shows will air

Sirius Bluegrass will have a special program featuring Rhonda Vincent on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Rhonda Vincent's Christmas Memories finds her in the studio with her family and several friends, discussing their Christmas memories - and playing her favorite bluegrass

Bluegrass Mix is the latest internet bluegrass radio station to launch, going live just a few days ago. Founders Roger Randolph and Julie Raye Huffman describe it as their "Christmas present to bluegrass fans around the globe." Though the stream is

Even as broadcasters and performer/songwriter's rights organizations spar over changing media technologies, we see continued growth in syndicated bluegrass radio programs. Typically, these shows are produced in advance and distributed at no cost to affiliate stations who agree to air