Online resources and features

Here are a couple of good choices for online listening for Friday, January 9. At noon, The Kati Penn Band will perform live on Blue Plate Special, broadcast from The Square Room in Knoxville, TN on WDVX. They will perform material from

Chris Thile is the subject of a multimedia interview in the January edition of WebMusicBox, the online publication of the American Music Center. It is a conversation with Frank Oteri, founding editor of the webzine, presented both in text and

In advance of his appearance this Saturday (1/10) at Don Quixote's International Music Hall (Felton, CA), the Santa Cruz Good Time Weekly wrote about man-of-many-disciplines Peter Rowan. In an article entitled Peter Rowan saw bluegrass born, the writer drew attention to

When I was first learning to play bluegrass music back in the 1970s, I spent as much time around old time players as I did 'grassers. Though I never learned to play it in an authentic style, I have always

The end of each year inevitably brings a plethora of countdowns and "best of" events in both television and radio. And bluegrass music is no different... Lee Michael Demsey has compiled his Top 40 Bluegrass Songs of 2008, which he will disclose

Fans of bluegrass veteran Curly Seckler will be able to enjoy two radio programs in which he is featured during the holiday period. On Friday, December 26 Seckler discusses his career with host Frank Stasio on North Carolina Public Radio's

In a story entitled The Grascals add girl power to their lineup, journalist Derek Halsey, writing for the Huntington, West Virginia Herald-Dispatch, previewed a recent Grascals show, the eighth featuring the band with recent banjo recruit, Kristin Scott Benson. Benson spoke

Rhonda Vincent has invited all of her fans into the studio with her this morning (12/18) as she and her newly revised band work on their next CD release. They have set up a video camera and will be cybercasting

We have learned that Bluegrass Now will cease publication with the December edition. The state of the economy has had a considerable effect on the music business and Bluegrass Now had already felt the impact earlier, when it was decided that

Here are two other special bluegrass shows being cybercast online today. Blue Plate Special on WDVX has live sets from banjo picker extraordinaire Danny Barnes, and fiddler/vocalist Barbara Lamb. The show airs at noon in the Knoxville market at 102.9 FM,