Bluegrass television news

This week's edition of ABC's hit reality show, Wife Swap, will feature the Stockdale Family of Ohio as one of the subjects of the show's family exchange experiment. Kathy Stockdale is both the matriarch of her brood, and the manager

Tim O'Brien is hitting the radio tour this week, promoting his new CD, Chameleon, just out on the Proper American label. He appeared this past Monday on The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour (video available online) and will be the guest

We posted last month about British bluegrass twins The Carrivick Sisters competing on the Upstaged program on BBC TV. The show is a talent competition and Laura and Charlotte were selected to compete in the finals after their initial appearances. The

We posted earlier this week with a banjo sighting on Fox Television's smash hit, American Idol. Now comes word from Phil Leadbetter, reso-man with Grasstowne, about the appearance of one of his signature Dobro guitars on the show. The Leadbetter model

This past week's American Idol had the various contestants interpreting the music of The Beatles, and one competitor, Chikezie, started his version of She's A Woman with a banjo and a fiddle. The grassyness only lasted through the first verse, but

Harry Smith began collecting early recording of folk music in the 1940s. During the War (WWII) many old recordings were melted down so the shellac could be used for the war effort, and many old recordings were lost forever. Smith's

Tony Trischka will be appearing tomorrow on the popular, syndicated morning talk show, Live with Regis and Kelly. Tony is only two weeks away from the release of his latest CD, Territory, and it is safe to presume that he

We posted last week that Punch Brothers would be appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 2/29. The video from that program will be available online for a few more days. The Tonight Show keeps each full show up

Tonight (2/29), Punch Brothers will be the musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. No doubt but that they will perform something from their just-released Nonesuch CD,  Punch. The show airs at 11:30 p.m. (ET) on NBC, and the

The various live performances from the recent Celtic Connections festival in Scotland that have been aired on BBC Scotland can be accessed online. Cherryholmes is among the acts whose appearances were aired, and three songs from their set (Black & White,