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Starting tomorrow (7/16), Bluegrass Junction goes European. Sirius-XM hosts Chris Jones and Ned Luberecki will be spending the next few days broadcasting from Norway. Both are at the Ris??r Bluegrass Workshop and Festival in Ris??r, Norway, performing at the fest and

I guess it had to happen... Casey Driessen has created a looped, all-fiddle version of Billie Jean as a Michael Jackson tribute.  Watching him stack the loops and then play the melody shows how well Casey has mastered the technology -

Update: I've corrected the time for Tuesday's show. It's 3pm EST. Our favorite Bluegrass time traveler, Wichita Rutherford, has brought yet another day under his control. Formerly Wichita had Friday and Saturday nights under his control, broadcasting his bluegrass music program,

Bob Childs is a noted violin maker based in Cambridge, MA. His instruments are played by members of Boston's acclaimed symphony orchestra as well as folk, old time and Irish musicians worldwide. Childs is a fiddler himself, having imbibed the fiddle

Roland White will join Katy Daley this morning (7/14) on WAMU's Bluegrass Country to celebrate the music of his late brother, Clarence White. Tomorrow (July 15) will mark the 36th anniversary of the day when Clarence was killed by a drunk

What is it with bluegrass mandolin legends taking fan questions and answering them online? Doyle Lawson and Sam Bush are both posting YouTube videos with answers to submitted questions. Here's Sam's latest, where he answers a query about how he approaches

We hear from editor Richard F. Thompson that the Summer 2009 edition of British Bluegrass News is in the mail. The magazine is published quarterly by the British Bluegrass Music Association, and this issue is the first under the guidance of

Here is the latest episode of Ask Doyle, where Doyle Lawson answers questions from fans about his long career in bluegrass music. This week he talks about The Bluegrass Album Band - how this star-studded group came to be and how

The Bankester Family has been performing as a bluegrass band since 2004, operating from their home in Carbondale, IL. The show consists of Phil and Dorene Bankester and their four daughters, plus a son-in-law. Melissa (21) plays bass, her husband Kyle

Wall Street Journal recently ran an article, in their business management section (July 6 edition, page B1), with the story of how Martin Guitar Company has dealt with the recently slow economy. The company was determined not to lay off any