Bluegrass television news

We've posted a few times about the FX original program Justified, and the bluegrass-tinged music they use during the show's soundtrack. It started with Rench, a hip hop artist who (as Ganstagrass) incorporates bluegrass elements in his music beds. He landed

The folks at Bluegrass Underground are stoked about the news that their live concert series will be carried on PBS television affiliates starting in the Fall of 2011. The show has been running as a radio program on WSM since August

Ed Helms has gotten our attention before when he did a little picking on The Office. He's got a new movie heading to the big screen, and again he'll be injecting some music into the role. NPR invited Helms into

We've posted previously about The John Hartford Stringband, and the marvelous album, Memories Of John, which they released in April of 2010 in tribute to their namesake. The band is a joint project of banjoist Bob Carlin, fiddler Matt Combs, and

Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver will be the guests on this weekend's edition of the Reno's Old Time Music Festival on  RFD-TV. The show is hosted by Ronnie Reno, and regularly features the best in traditional bluegrass music. We understand that Doyle

The Grascals stopped by the Fox & Friends set on Sunday morning to perform music from their new Cracker Barrel CD, The Grascals & Friends - Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. The album features Nashville's favorite bluegrass group in collaboration

The banjo has always had a unique relationship to television. It has showed up in some likely and unlikely places. We enjoyed the appearance of the banjo on The Office last year. Now it's made another showing in a new

Cumberland River Band will be celebrating a major milestone next month, when their music is featured on the FX television series Justified. The show is something of a modern day Western, set in rural Kentucky, and starring Timothy Olyphant as

The Grascals' new CD isn't about food, it's about Country Classics With A Bluegrass Spin. Nonetheless, The Grascals seem to be finding themselves around food a lot. The CD itself is released on the Grascal's new label BluGrascal Records, in association

Gary Brewer has been playing bluegrass his entire life. His family is steeped in the genre going back generations. The current line up of his band includes three generations of Brewer men (Gary, his dad, and his two sons). When the