Online Christmas bluegrass shows are busting out all over! Tonight and tomorrow nights (December 10-11), Rhonda Vincent is bringing her star-studded Christmas in Branson show to Facebook Live. The same special holiday program that has been running nightly at the Andy
This Sunday evening (December 13), two of the most celebrated guitarists in the recent history of acoustic music will perform a live Christmas show from Nashville, TN. Tommy Emmanuel on the steel string guitar will pair up with Jerry Douglas
Bandcamp, the popular artist-centered web site that allows bands to sell their CDs and downloads under their own control, has announced a new ticketed live stream service for performers who want to offer concerts online. While Facebook Live is simple to
The folks at the Blueberry Bluegrass Festival in Alberta have come up with a wonderful way to share the music through the dark winter months ahead. They are holding a series of Thursday night workshops called 20 Workshops in 20 Weeks.
Round Window Institute's Banjo Summit is going virtual this year, with all classes and workshops held online. Overseen by Jake Schepps, The Banjo Summit has a very specific focus. Their goal is to demonstrate new techniques to add color to traditional
Like every other performer in the music world, Punch Brothers have had to cancel all of their shows since March of this year. In addition, lead Brother Chris Thile has also seen his live radio program, Live from Here!, get
Bluegrass sweethearts, Carley Arrowood, fiddle extraordinaire and Mountain Home recording artist, and Daniel Thrailkill, guitarist and lead vocalist of the Trailblazers, are launching a new YouTube series this weekend. It will feature recipes and tunes that relate to the recipes
Just as most bluegrass festivals in the US and Canada have been cancelled this year due to state and local restrictions, so are similar events in Europe and beyond. And so the Al Ras Bluegrass Festival, held each year on this
Following on the success of last month's virtual flatpicking competition, two of our nation's premier instructors of traditional music, Steve Kaufman and Marcy Marxer, have launched a full series of online championships, under the rubric of World Virtual Acoustic Contests. These
Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has released another book of transcriptions, this time featuring the playing of Dan Tyminski with Lonesome River Band. Tristan has transcribed all of Dan's solos from LRB's breakout album, Carrying The Tradition, which set the bluegrass
