Bluegrass television news

We reported on Tuesday that Sammy Shelor had been selected as the 2011 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music. This is the second year that Martin has endowed this $50,000 annual award, which

August has been a good month for Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent. They heard their names called several times when this year's IBMA Award nominations were announced (Entertainer of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year and Male Vocalist of

How would you like to win a brand new Martin HD-28V guitar valued at $4,000? Or maybe a Northfield A5M mandolin... tickets to a live taping of Austin City Limits? These are all prizes in a video contest to promote the

Here's video of Alison Krauss & Union Station performing Miles To Go from their Paper Airplane CD on ABC's The View last Friday morning.

This morning's (8/5) edition of The View on ABC will include a live in-studio performance from Alison Krauss & Union Station. The band is on tour promoting their new CD, Paper Airplane, and making a stop in NYC between shows in

I've known a number of banjo picking attorneys in my day (insert joke here), but Jim Gabeheart is the first five-slinging prosecutor to make my acquaintance. In addition to his duties as an Assistant Prosecutor in Lincoln County, WV, Jim plays

Darin & Brooke Aldridge, and their talented band, were guests Monday (7/25) on the Charlotte Today show, broadcast on WCNC in Charlotte, NC. They performed the song Wildflower, from their upcoming Mountain Home CD, So Much In Between. Brooke takes the

The Bluegrass Blog posted earlier this year about the reformation of The Travelers, and their upcoming album on Patuxent Records. The band is based around noted bluegrass sidemen Norman Wright and Kevin Church, who toured with that name in the 1990s.

Oops... the video we posted yesterday of the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, which we indicated was from their second appearance on Huckabee, was actually a second song they played on the first show. Here's actual video of them from the July

Here's a video of the performance last Tuesday (7/19) by the Del McCoury Band and the Preservation Jazz Hall Band on The Late Show with David Letterman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZflO132rEg