• Jim Van Cleve DVD Trailer

    AcuTab is soon to release a new instructional DVD from Mountain Heart fiddler, Jim Van Cleve. The product is actually a two disc set, featuring over 4 hours of instruction from Jim. Disc 1 contains a good deal of instruction in

  • Mark O'Connor video from The New Yorker

    Fiddle virtuoso Mark O'Connor has been showing up everywhere of late. He is on the cover of the September 2009 issue of Strings Magazine, and received a profile in the September 7 edition of The New Yorker's Talk Of The Town

  • Classical Americana video

    We posted in August about The Nashville Symphony's Classical Americana concert, scheduled for this Saturday (9/12). The show will feature noted bluegrass and folk performers with the symphony, and was programmed as a tribute to the Americana Music Association's convention next

  • Rob Ickes on NPR

    Speaking of Rob Ickes... He was the subject of a nearly six minute segment on yesterday's (9/20) All Things Considered, broadcast on the majority of NPR stations all over the US. The piece was produced, voiced and written by our friend

  • Bluegrass Junction at the MACC

    Bluegrass Junction, the all-bluegrass channel on Sirius-XM, is dedicating much of their programming over this holiday weekend to audio from the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival in July. The annual festival features performances from top bluegrass entertainers who appear for

  • Bluegrass acts take JPF Awards

    Last week's Just Plain Folks Awards in Nashville brought good news to a number of our favorite bluegrass gals. Donna Hughes, Valerie Smith and Donna Ulisse each won in different categories. Hughes took Bluegrass Album for Gaining Wisdom, Ulisse, Bluegrass Song

  • Martin family squable hits the news

    The unpleasant infighting among the children of Jimmy Martin over his estate, an open secret for years within the bluegrass community, has hit the mainstream media. The Tennessean, Nashville's hometown newspaper, has published a story on the ongoing legal battle over

  • Born Into Bluegrass radio premiere 8/29

    The upcoming Mountain Roads Recordings CD, Born Into Bluegrass - The Songs of Cullen Galyean, will be premiered tonight (8/29) on WBRF FM 98.1 in Galax, VA. The album celebrates the contributions of Galyean, a legendary performer from western North Carolina

  • Flamekeeper at WAMU

    WAMU's Bluegrass Country has posted a video from Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper's recent visit to their Washington studio. The guys run through a number of songs live in the studio, and chat with Bluegrass Country host Katy Daley. If you've not

  • Grascals to play on Jerry Lewis telethon

    The Grascals are among the stars selected to perform during the 44th Annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. This television stalwart, which raises money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, will air on affiliate stations all over the US starting on Sunday,