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  • Joy Kills Sorrow live online

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    We've posted several times about Joy Kills Sorrow, the inventive Boston string band that features the lovely voice of Emma Beaton. Their songs and their sound are fresh, original and quite compelling. Wes Corbett is on banjo, Jacob Joliff on

  • Charlie Cushman, Rob Ickes interviews from Mel Bay

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    Mel Bay Publications has launched a video artist interview series on YouTube, and several of the first videos posted feature prominent bluegrass artists. The interviews are conducted by Nashville media personality Erica Cantrell, and include brief bios, playing tips and

  • Championship Contest Fiddling from Mel Bay

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    Mel Bay has released Championship Contest Fiddling, a book/CD set with transcriptions from 44 fiddle tunes as they were played by winning fiddlers at the National Old Time Fiddlers’ Contest in Weiser, ID. 13 champions are profiled, not only with transcriptions

  • John Cowan on Blue Plate Special

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    The John Cowan Band will be performing live today (4/2) on Blue Plate Special, which airs on WDVX from Knoxville. The show airs at noon (EDT) and you can catch it over the air in and around Knoxville at a02.9

  • Shop video from Bourgeois Guitar

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    Dana Bourgeois has posted a video in which he describes how he selects tops to use in his guitars. It was filmed at his shop in Lewiston, Maine located in an old mill that pre-dates the US Civil War. Bourgeois chooses

  • Bluegrass music canceled

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    It was a good run... 60 plus years. But now, based on the testimony of a janitor/banjo player in rural West Virginia, it has come to an end. Hiram "Tootie" Walker says that the image of Bill Monroe appeared in a

  • Gary Reid on Leadership Bluegrass

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    Here's one last piece on IBMA's 2010 Leadership Bluegrass, this time from Gary Reid. Gary has spent a lifetime in service to bluegrass music, working first at Rebel Records and then with his own label, Copper Creek Records. He has also

  • G2 – new music, and a new apartment?

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    One more release to note for March 30...  Swedish grassers G2 have dropped a single from their next CD, Untapped Routes. The song is Still Standing, written by lead singer/guitar Chris Olsson, and it is available now to broadcasters through

  • Tennessee Shines tonight on WDVX

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    There is a bunch of great music in store for tonight's (3/31) edition of Tennessee Shines, broadcast live on WDVX from Knoxville's Bijou Theatre. Four acts are scheduled to perform, along with host Jim Lauderdale. You'll hear sets from grassers Brand

  • Sierra Hull video in the studio

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    Well, it seems like the theme on Bluegrass Today of late is candid video shot in the recording studio. First we had The Infamous Stringdusters, Cadillac Sky and Blue Moon Rising, and now we feature footage from Sierra Hull. She spent