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Are you one of the many people who enjoy Song Of The Mountains on PBS? If so, you're not alone. The show broadcasts top bluegrass artists, recorded live on stage, through powerful public broadcasting stations in more than 60 US markets.

Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen has posted a pair of videos shot by Todd Godbout during the band's performance at last weekend's Stars of the State concert in Falls Church, VA. The show was held as a celebration of the

Donna Ulisse will join Lee Michael Demsey this morning on WAMU's Bluegrass Country to talk her about her new album, An Easy Climb, released earlier this week. Like her previous CDs, it features Donna singing her original compositions, tracked with some

Jim Lauderdale is back with more of his Tex-Mex flavored, Buck Owens-inflected bluegrass on a new Sugar Hill CD, Reason And Rhyme, due June 21. Again he is paired with songwriting partner Robert Hunter and co-producer Randy Kohrs, who also adds

Nu-Blu is offering a free track download to promote the first single from their upcoming Pinecastle CD, The Blu Disc, due for an August 9 release. The song is a clever response to Dolly Parton's mega-hit, Jolene, which was memorably covered

Here's another bluegrass artist using Kickstarter to help raise funds for a recording project. This time it's Della Mae, based in Boston, who are hoping that fans, friends and interested patrons of the bluegrass arts will pledge a total of $8000

Past attendees, exhibitors or sponsors of the IBMA World Of Bluegrass will have by now received the informational brochure for the 2011 event, scheduled for September 26-29 in Nashville. The brochure details the many events that will occur during the

NPR has posted the entire 24 minute video of Chris Thile and Michael Daves performing live at a Tiny Desk Concert at the headquarters of NPR Music in Washington, DC. These initially impromptu concerts have grown into a regular NPR feature,

With a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the help of many volunteers who digitized tracks from CDs and vinyl, Dick Cassidy put WAMU Radio’s bluegrasscountry.org on the Internet in 2001. There were no hosts and

The following is an announcement from the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation, and is being distributed during this week's 45th Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival. Dear Friends, Donors, and Supporters of the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation: We first set out