Online resources and features

If you've never attended the annual SPBGMA convention in Nashville - and even if you have - you'll be able to follow some of the fun this year on Periscope, thanks to the folks at WOBO in Batavia, OH. The

Great news for fans of Flatt Lonesome. The fresh-faced sextet has planned a special online concert for January 28 that allows them to combine two of their passions, and have a big time doing it. All the band members have become big

Nashville's Music City Roots is given over tonight to a 70th birthday celebration and pickin' party for John McEuen. It appears to be a big time planned to help celebrate the banjo picker and multi-instrumentalist who has spent 50 years

NewFolkRadio has divided its free online acoustic music stream, moving bluegrass to its own channel. The primary stream is now 100% folk music, with bluegrass 24/7 at NewBluegrassRadio.com. Both stations are managed by John Hart in Portland, OR. John prefers to receive music

Radio Velvet, the online bluegrass radio network based in the Slovak Republic, has announced that Tom Adams' tribute to the music of Bill Keith will be aired again three more times this week. Adams hosts a recurring weekly program, Adams County

Don't forget, the International Bluegrass Music Awards will be broadcast live tonight online from MusicCityRoots.com. You can see all your favorite bluegrass stars accepting their trophies from the Duke Energy Center in Raleigh, NC, along with live stage performance from Steep Canyon

Tom Feller has spent much of this summer working on the upcoming debut of a new web site remembering the wonderful music of The Boys From Indiana. In addition to running his own band with Chris Hill, maintaining a studio and a

Justin Moses has been one of the more active bluegrass musicians working in our music this past decade, but rarely in a showy or bombastic fashion. Possessed of near-virtuosic skills on all the common bluegrass instruments, Moses has served as banjoist

Old time fiddler and mandolinist Adam Tanner has put together a mandolin tune book for Apple's iBook format. It combines audio files with standard notation and tablature for on-screen display, in what should be a very convenient learning system for

Here's some bluegrass fun from The Wortman Brothers of Germany. They have devised a computer game featuring themselves using MIT's Scratch programming language. The object of Bluegrass Battle is to maneuver the two bluegrass musicians, representing the Wortmanns, to safety. Game play involves