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In addition to preparing for IBMA, WAMU's Bluegrass Country host Katy Daley has several big interviews on tap this week during her morning show. This morning (9/23) at 9:00 a.m. (EDT), Katy will speak with Valerie Smith about her 3rd annual

The Chapmans recently filmed a new music video for their tune Bubble Gum Baby, and they've released some behind the scenes photos on their Facebook page. Bubble Gum Baby is track 5 from their newest CD Grown up (A Revisionist History).

The Bankester Family is one of 13 acts invited as an official showcase artist for next week's World Of Bluegrass in Nashville. To take full advantage of this opportunity, they have timed the release of their first music video for

Since 1992, Kirk and Becky Brandenberger have managed Prime Cuts Of Bluegrass, a radio marketing and promotion service specializing in bluegrass music. Six times each year, a new volume of Prime Cuts has been delivered to hundreds of program directors and

I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, by Gene Lowinger Gene Lowinger, a New Jersey boy by birth, was the first northerner to play the fiddle for Bill Monroe. He first played with Monroe in 1964, filling in on shows

Just last month, we published a Songwriter Profile featuring an interview with Mark "Brink" Brinkman. Brink is also profiled this week on Music from Foggy Hollow, hosted each week on WAMU's Bluegrass Country by Mike Kear. Mike plays some of Brink's

Ricky Skaggs was a guest on the Friday (9/18) edition of All Things Considered, aired on hundreds of NPR radio affiliates all over the US. He was interviewed by Melissa Block about his new CD, Solo - Songs My Dad

The Sound Kitchen has posted a new video from Cadillac Sky, one of several artists they represent. It's a sneak peek of a song from the band's next CD, which is being produced by Dan Auerbach, known for his work

The Denver Post has weighed in on the official debut of Chris Thile's Mandolin Concerto withthe Colorado Symphony on Thursday night (9/17). Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post Fine Arts Critic, was enthusiast about the piece, and hailed Thile as "up-and-coming classical composer

Sam Bush was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award on Thursday night by the Americana Music Association. His trophy was a handpainted Gibson mandolin - one of the new Sam Bush Limited Edition Inspired By ‘34 Fern models announced earlier