Online resources and features

  • Americana Music Awards 2006

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    While many of us in the world of bluegrass get started on our big week in Nashville, let's not forget that our friends in The Americana Music Association just concluded their annual convention, also hosted here in Music City. Like IBMA,

  • Barry Abernathy on WUNC today

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    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

  • Alison Brown on The Opry

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    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

  • Duhks contest for Magfest

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    The folks at JamBase, together with Sugar Hill Records and MagnoliaFest have put together a special contest and prize package to celebrate the release of the new Duhks CD, Migrations. Contest winners will receive VIP passes to MagnoliaFest, held October 19-22

  • Winfield photos on Flatpicking Guitar site

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    The folks at Flatpicking Guitar Magazine have posted a nice photo gallery from the 35th Annual National Flatpicking Guitar Championship, recently concluded in Winfield, KS. They have three pages of photos, taken during the competition itself, and from the warm-up

  • Chris Thile video contest on YouTube

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    As we have mentioned many times this past few months, the new CD from Chris Thile, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, is officially released today. To help promote the CD, Sugar Hill Records is sponsoring a video contest,

  • Sammy Shelor interview today

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    Later this afternoon, you can catch an interview with Lonesome River Band's Sammy Shelor on WorldWideBluegrass.com. Sam will join WWB host Gracie Muldoon at 4:30 p.m. (EDT) on Friday afternoon (9/8) for a chat, which will surely include their newest

  • American Made Banjo Company

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    We heard from Tom Mirisola with Kel Kroydon Banjos last week, and he told us that he has officially changed the name of his company to the American Made Banjo Company. They have just launched their new web site as

  • Dr. Banjo’s message board

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    Pete Wernick, aka Dr. Banjo, has just added a new message board to his web site. It is designed to allow site visitors to ask Pete a question about learning to play the banjo, or about getting started playing in