Media

Our friend Ted Lehmann has put together a terrific profile of our other friend Dennis Jones, and posted it on his blog, Ted Lehmann's Bluegrass, Books, and Brainstorms. Ted visited the WNCW radio studio in Spindale, NC where Dennis serves as

Piedmont Folk Legacies, who puts on the annual Charlie Poole Music Festival in North Carolina, has recently announced the acquisition of premises which will eventually house a National Banjo Center in Eden, NC. The two buildings involved, both former textile mills

Does RollingStone know its bluegrass? Take a few minutes to read this article, recently published on the magazine's website, and then answer in our poll. Here's the introduction. It's been more than 60 years since Bill Monroe, the Father of Bluegrass, unleashed

If you haven't picked up a copy of Brothers from Different Mothers, the latest CD from Dailey & Vincent, the next few days will offer a chance to hear all the new music on Sirius-XM. Starting this morning (4/15) at 11:00

We've posted once before concerning the inclusion of the banjo in the popular TV show The Office. The latest episode includes another musical interlude featuring the instrument. With a new secretary in The Office, Dwight and Andy attempt to impress her

We just heard from G2, our favorite Swedish bluegrass band, with news about their next CD. Banjo player Jens Koch tells us that they spent this past weekend tracking at Cosmos Studio in Stockholm, bringing them roughly to the halfway mark

Alaska Airlines has a hilarious television commercial poking fun at how their competitors try to sweeten bad news with... Well, you'll just have to watch for yourself.

We are always encouraged to see main stream media coverage of our beloved musical genre. When that coverage is in a major news outlet like the New York Times, it's even better. Yesterday the NYT published a story in its "Arts"

Béla Fleck will be an in-studio guest today (4/9) on the Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU FM). He will talk about the African roots of today's modern five string banjo, his journey of discovery to west Africa in 2005, and Throw Down

Will The Doerfels be the next young family band to leave a mark on the bluegrass world? Like many other bluegrass family acts before them, the band is composed of a group of talented siblings, but they differ from the template