Media

We heard this week from Phil Bankester, pére of the singing Bankester Family of Illinois, and a video producer with Genuine Human Productions in Nashville. Phil was at The Station Inn on Tuesday for the weekly Mashville Brigade show to

New bluegrass fans may not realize the impact that the Washington, DC area had on the history of our music, especially if they live far from the nation's capitol. In the 1970s and '80s a very active bluegrass scene had sprung

We've posted a few times about The Boxcars, the new supergroup formed late in 2009 by Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, John Bowman and Keith Garrett. To date, they have only played a few shows together and are working on

Lonesome River Band is on the cover of the February 2010 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited, on newstands now. The cover feature - plus a sidebar on LRB guitarist/vocalist Brandon Rickman - was written by Chris Stuart, a regular BU contributor and

Bulagrian bluegrass songstress Lilly Drumeva has a new CD on Polysound Records. Lovin' You was recorded in both Bulgaria, with her band Lilly Of The West, and in Czech Republic, where she recorded with Czech grassers Monogram. The album features covers

The Dixie Bee-Liners will soon be releasing a video of their single Heavy. The song, which appears on the Bee-Liners' recent release Susanville, heavily features mountain dulcimer and fiddle. Director Chris Connor and the band shot the video on location in

The National Council for the Traditional Arts has announced another Music From The Crooked Road concert tour for 2010. The focus is on the traditional music and musicians of southwest Virginia, and to highlight The Crooked Road,Virginia's Heritage Music Trail. Concerts

Prescription Bluegrass, a weekly, one-hour radio show from northern Arizona, has been added to the lineup at Radio Bluegrass International. RBI is a free online radio service hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Museum, and Prescription Bluegrass will be heard

The Bristol Herald Courier, which covers Bristol Tennessee and Virginia, plus the nearby cities of Johnson City and Jonesborough, TN, had a piece last Monday about the changing of the guard at East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass, Old Time &

The New River is legendary in bluegrass and old time music, primarily through the song New River Train. The river actually flows quite near where I live, and I cross over it regularly traveling south on I-81 from Roanoke -