Flatt Lonesome will be doing a live Periscope session this evening prior to their performance tonight on the Grand Ole Opry. They'll put on a short mini-concert back stage which anyone who has the app installed can watch at no
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John Deere visits The Crooked Road
Virginia's Crooked Road, the state's successful effort to use traditional mountain music as a tourist draw for dozens of southwest Virginia communities, is getting a nice boost from an unexpected place. The Furrow, a publication of the John Deere Company which
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The Why Lonesome Sound with Tristan Scroggins
Today's times call for fresh, new, cutting edge ideas. Who will be the first of the group to get the latest iPhone? What's the best recording equipment to date? Who will create the newest lick or write a song unlike
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ETSU Pride Band to perform on Facebook Live
This evening at 8:00 p.m., East Tennessee State University and their bluegrass Pride Band are set to make history. At least in the bluegrass world. The Departments of Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies and Mass Communications will jointly present
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Moron Brothers live on Facebook
The Moron Brothers, everybody's favorite bluegrass comedians, are hosting a special performance tonight (9/15) on Facebook. Lardo and Burley will be using the Facebook live video feature to share their unique perspective on the world starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. These
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Bluegrass Country Foundation forms to save BluegrassCountry.org
It looks like there is at least one group in the DC capitol area hard at work to save their beloved bluegrass radio in the district and outlying areas. The Bluegrass Country Foundation has been formed specifically to raise the necessary
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Fiddlevideo.com joins the online instruction field
Revolutions can sweep away what came before them in swift and surprising ways, and we see that in the manner that music education has changed in the digital and internet age. New companies appear on a regular basis that take advantage of
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Lonesome Banjo Chronicles features Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw
The world of online podcasting continues to provide opportunities for folks with something to say, to say it to the wider community at a minimum of expense and trouble. A microphone, a computer, and an online connection is all that
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Radio Velvet to shut down
More sad news from the world of internet radio... Richard Cifersky has informed us that his European online bluegrass radio project, Radio Velvet, has discontinued their streaming service. The Slovak-based 24/7 network has been operating for the past two years, managed
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Bluegrass Country seeks new owners
WAMU, which has provided a home for bluegrass music in our nation's capitol since July 1967, has made the decision to switch to an all news and information format starting January 1, 2017. As a result, their bluegrass streaming service,