• Memorial Day Weekend with Cherryholmes

    Cherryholmes has created a mini-travelogue video that follows their exploits over the recently-concluded Memorial Day weekend. It mixes video and still images with both backstage and onstage looks at the family on the road. Over the course of two days, Cherryholmes

  • Bluegrass a plenty on Mountain Stage

    The Mountain Stage web page at the NPR Music site has links to a number of recently re-aired programs that should be of interest to readers of Bluegrass Today. These are encore presentations of earlier shows, but the music is still

  • Ask Doyle

    In support of his new Rounder CD, Lonely Street, Doyle Lawson has launched a weekly online video series called Ask Doyle, where fans are encouraged to submit question which Doyle will answer online. The first episode is in the form of

  • Don’t Turn Your Back video released

    Compass Records has released a video for the title track of Dale Ann Bradley's superb new album, Don't Turn Your Back. It was shot and directed by Matt Zervos, a 20 year old filmmaker who approached Dale Ann directly about the

  • Dailey & Vincent: video update

    After posting last week about the recently wrapped video shoot for Dailey & Vincent, John and I had the chance to speak with Jamie and Darrin on the phone, and ask them about the video. The duo tells us the video

  • Good week for jazz banjo

    Our beloved five string banjo is getting its props this week from the jazz world, with both the venerable Down Beat magazine and AllAboutJazz.com giving space to prominent banjo jazzers. Down Beat has Béla Fleck on the cover of its June

  • Del on PHC

    The Del McCoury Band will be a featured guest on this weekend's edition of A Prairie Home Companion, broadcast throughout the US on public radio stations and on Sirius-XM. The show will air live on Saturday (5/30) at 6:00 p.m. (EDT)

  • IBMA members attend Summer NAMM for free

    The International Bluegrass Music Association has struck a deal to allow its members to attend the Summer NAMM show in Nashville at no charge, and without registering as a NAMM member. To take advantage of this option, you need to