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UPDATE 12/30 – Pete received a note yesterday from Dean Budnick, editor at Relix, who was aghast at the oversight, and determined to make its right. They have since done so, completely revamping the article. Raffaela Kenny-Cincotta, who wrote the original

Al Murphy, a noted old time fiddler from Iowa City, was raised in a family of fiddlers, and mentored by Otis McCray who had played fiddle in Iowa since the 1880s. Folks in the region revere Murphy not only for

Many thanks to Danny "Hootenany" Clark with The Bluegrass Bus Museum for sharing this vintage video from California's Grass Valley Festival back in 1988. It features The Tony Rice Unit playing an extended version of Me and My Guitar, the title

The New Acoustic Collective is a contemporary string band in the Bay area of California, dedicated to the sort of chamber swing and jazz popularized in the 1980s by artists like David Grisman and Tony Rice. Those old enough to remember

Attention banjo players and students! If you haven't already discovered Eli Gilbert's 12 Days of Licksmas videos, see that you do so post haste. Eli is a young banjo player from Maine, just making it into the under 30 crowd, who

Here's a Christmas treat for banjo lovers everywhere. Three of your favorite pickers will be doing a livestream concert tomorrow night (12/23) on Facebook, billed as the Bearded Banjo Santas Holiday Hang with Alan Munde, Béla Fleck, and Tony Trischka.

Sarah Chapman has released another music video today from her debut album, Winnebago, released earlier this year. It's her cover of There Is A Reason, a lovely song of faith written by Ron Block and first recorded by Alison Krauss &

Bluegrass Ambassadors - The McLain Family Band in Appalachia and the World, by Paul O. Jenkins, is now available from West Virginia University Press. The book purports to be the first book-length history of the McLains' long and profound legacy in

Back in the 1950s and '60s, a type of Christmas special was very popular on television, featuring popular singers as hosts. They would appear in homey scenes with their families, singing traditional carols, and drinking hot chocolate or egg nog.

With Christmas parties off the docket for most of us this year, many folks who have already pulled out their tacky holiday attire are wondering why they bothered. But there is still a chance to get a reaction from that appalling