Bluegrass television news

  • Bluegrass takes a stroll down Sesame Street

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    I don't know how many of our readers still watch Sesame Street, but maybe you've got some kids, or grandkids, who do. I just discovered that the Sesame Street label released a DVD earlier this summer featuring several bluegrass and

  • New Flatt & Scruggs DVDs

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    "Awww... thank you T. Tommy." How do you type that out of the corner of your mouth so it sounds like Lester Flatt? I finally had a chance recently to watch the new Flatt & Scruggs DVDs released by the Country

  • Tune it in, turn it on: Bluegrass on FOX

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    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. The new FOX television American Idol spin-off The Next Great

  • Bluegrass on GAC

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    GAC-TV was a primary sponsor of the IBMA Awards Show last week, and this week they are beginning a run of four episodes of their show Edge of Country, featuring a large number of bluegrass artists. GAC describes Edge of Country

  • Alison Krauss on GAC tonight

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    Great American Country (GAC) will be rebroadcasting their special Alison Krauss program tonight (10/8) and tomorrow on their cable TV network. The show, Alison Krauss: A Hundred Miles Or More, finds Ms. Krauss in the studio, recreating many of the

  • Randy Kohrs: music video

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    Not long ago we told you about all the excitement on the set when Randy Kohrs was shooting his newest music video. I had a chance to watch the video the other day at IBMA and got a copy on

  • Sam Bush on GAC today

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    Look for Sam Bush on GAC TV this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. He'll be on their Edge of Country show to talk with host Kylie Harris about his hosting the IBMA Awards Show on Thursday, and to preview the debut

  • Samantha Casey wins Oreo Jingle Contest

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    Hailing from Selma, N.C., at Samantha Casey & The Bluegrass Jam is a two person band comprised of 11 year old Samantha Casey on fiddle, and her dad, Daniel, on guitar and banjo. The two have been performing together for

  • Transatlantic Sessions with Jerry Douglas

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    BBC Four will be airing a new series of the Transatlantic Sessions beginning this month. The show brings together musicians from both sides of the Atlantic, from the US, Ireland and Scotland. The various musicians will perform both solo and

  • Rhonda Vincent and Gene Watson on GAC

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    Country music legend Gene Watson has a new CD due on September 25 on Shanachie Records entitled In A Perfect World. On this release, Watson records several duets with other notable Nashville vocalists, among them bluegrass music's reigning queen, Rhonda