New York City grassers Cole Quest and The City Pickers have released a clever animated music video for the second single from their upcoming EP, Self Titled. Cole has an interesting lineage for a singer and songwriter. He is the grandson
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IBMA opens Official Showcase applications for WOB ’21
The International Bluegrass Music Association is now accepting applications from artists interested in showcasing during the 2021 World of Bluegrass convention, scheduled for September 28 through October 2 in Raleigh, NC. These applications are open to any bluegrass acts looking to
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New Earl Scruggs Banjo Songbook expected in May
The Hal Leonard music publishing company has announced the imminent release of a new book of Earl Scruggs banjo transcriptions. Titled The Earl Scruggs Banjo Songbook, it will offer tablature for 84 classic Scruggs solos taken from both recordings and live
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IBMA Foundation to raffle last available Z Mandolin
Anyone remember Z Mandolins? A couple of years ago a media executive and mandolin enthusiast named Lee Zapis set to work creating a F-5 style instrument made almost entirely of a carbon fiber composite material. He researched this as an experiment,
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Kiss On a Cold Cold Stone video from Jesse Brock
Sound Biscuit Productions has a new single today from Jesse Brock, a second from his upcoming Streamliner album. Known as a skilled mandolinist, this will be his second solo effort, and his first with Dave Maggard and Sound Biscuit. From the time
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Love In The Mountains video from Gary Brewer and Ashton Shepherd
Gary Brewer & The Kentucky Ramblers have released a music video for the third single from their 2020 album, 40th Anniversary Celebration. This project features Gary and the boys teamed up with many of the consequential artists he has known
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Tommy Emmanuel plays Flatt Did It with Rob & Trey
CGP Sounds has announced a four-track EP from Tommy Emmanuel in May, featuring him recorded live in the studio with Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley. Titled Accomplice Series Vol. 1, it finds these three virtuosic pickers trading licks and having
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Walls of Time video from Sara Shiloh Rae & Bluebird Junction
We have written a couple of times about Sara Hershkowitz, a noted opera performer who has recently been returning to the bluegrass roots she grew up on. In order to avoid confusion appealing to such widely divergent audiences, she now
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Alex Miller takes his Kentucky bluegrass to American Idol
This year’s American Idol contestant field has strong representation from the bluegrass genre. For the show's 19th season, there are four such young performers vying to become the next American Idol. One is 17 year old Alex Miller from Lancaster,
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Brand New Good Ole Days video from Leftover Salmon
Compass Records has released an animated lyric video for the title track of their upcoming project with Colorado jamgrass icons, Leftover Salmon. This new album, which drops May 7, marks the return of these veteran festival and concert favorites to