Online resources and features

Brand New Strings, fresh off their win in the SPBGMA band championship earlier this month, will perform live tomorrow (2/28) on a special Saturday edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX. The band consists of Randall Massengill on guitar, Mike Ramsey

Three-time Grammy-winning jazz bass icon Charlie Haden along with actor and son-in-law Jack Black will make their debuts on the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night. (February 28). Leading the two shows on the Grand Ole Opry at the Ryman

Acoustic Guitar magazine has launched a social networking site specifically for... well, acoustic guitarists. The site is called Acoustic Guitar Community, and offers many of the features familiar to users of such culture-shifting sites as Facebook or MySpace. Members create a

The Gibson Brothers are scheduled to feature on Tennessee Shines this evening (2/25). The show is broadcast from Knoxville, TN on WDVX 89.9 FM, and via live audio streaming online. Tennessee Shines is a monthly live broadcast from the Bijou Theatre,

Special Consensus' Greg Cahill will join Katy Daley on WAMU's Bluegrass Country on Tuesday morning (2/24) at 9:00 a.m. Katy tells us that Greg will be calling in from home in the Chicago area before they head down to Florida for

Ignorance on parade... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9Lge8J-s7wIs there anything more obnoxious than people who believe something is worthless if they haven't heard of it? Of course, I've never heard of these guys, or their YouTube show, but it seems to be a popular online video

Starting next week (2/14), the live bluegrass radio series Bluegrass Underground will move to a weekly, Saturday evening slot on WSM AM 650 from Nashville. The new time is 6:00-7:00 p.m. (ET), just ahead of the Saturday Grand Ole Opry broadcast. Live

We just learned of the passing of Phil Mann, a great friend to the banjo community and an early pioneer of online bluegrass resources. He died on January 23, 2009 after being ill for some time. Phil's web site, www.bluegrassbanjo.org, was

Audio from Blue Highway's recent radio performance on Mountain Stage can now be accessed at NPR.com. They included selections from several of their critically-acclaimed recordings, offering a fine taste of their live show for the Mountain Stage audience. Through the Window of

We heard recently from Gianluca Tramontana, who hosts a weekly radio program in England. Sitting with Gianluca airs each Wednesday evening at 10:00 p.m. (GMT) on Resonance 104.4 with a mix of live music and discussion with roots music artists. His