Online resources and features

The Daughters of Bluegrass are offering a fan competition on their website right now. It's a simple one page form that you fill out answering some questions about the artists who played on the title cut of the new CD

In addition to the material he has and will contribute to the bluegrasscollege.org site we referenced yesterday, Mike Compton will soon begin offering private, individual mandolin lessons online using chat software. A prospective student will need a high speed internet

A new web-based instructional program for bluegrass music has been launched, going by the name bluegrasscollege.org. They describe their site as an interactive learning resource for bluegrass players on any instrument, at any level. Their web site describes the program

The Herald Dispatch in Huntington, WV has a detailed story in this morning's edition about Ernie Thacker's recent auto accident, which we had briefly outlined in a series of earlier posts. The Herald Dispatch article has information about a number

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver is the current guest on Kyle Cantrell's Studio Special, which runs each week on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14). The series, which features a mix of live, in-studio performance and interviews with popular bluegrass

Here's a few more bluegrass band that have joined Myspace.com Tim Graves now has a myspace account located here. The Morgantown Rounders inform us they too have a myspace page here. The band Flying Blind Bluegrass now has a myspace page that you

The Clarion-Ledger is carrying a story about Ricky Skaggs that I thought some of you might find interesting. The story concerns Skaggs' performance tonight with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. The benefit concert is being held Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson,

Here's a couple more bluegrass pages on Myspace.com Lou Reid has put up a page for his band Carolina. It can be found here. He also tells us the The Seldom Scene now have a myspace page available here.

We found a nice article in The Blue Ridge Gazette on the contributions of Patrick County, VA residents to traditional Appalachian and bluegrass music. The article is specifically about the opening of a historical marker and information kiosk in Meadows

When King Wilkie recently performed at the Jefferson Theater in Charlottesville, VA, the show was professionally recorded, mixed and mastered for online distribution by the folks at Monkeyclaus, a new recording studio, independent label and music distributor in central VA.