Media

The March 2009 issue of Bluegrass Unlimited is their annual Instrument Issue, and this year's cover story is on Gibson. The story, by Dave McCarty, is titled When Only A Gibson Is Good Enough. It focuses not on the company's storied

A video of Hard Rock Mountain Prison ('Til I Die), the upcoming single release from Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, has popped up on YouTube. It was shot during the 2009 SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Awards in Nashville on February 15. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKpEDrUerrY The

Special Consensus' Greg Cahill will join Katy Daley on WAMU's Bluegrass Country on Tuesday morning (2/24) at 9:00 a.m. Katy tells us that Greg will be calling in from home in the Chicago area before they head down to Florida for

The second installment of the self-produced documentary from The Infamous Stringdusters' 2009 Ski Tour has been posted. It follows our heroes through a number of live shows, a house concert and some late night van travel through the mountains. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VvhnapUhn4Videographer Chris Pandolfi

The Gospel Music Association on Friday (2/20) announced the nominations for their forthcoming awards show. Among the finalists for the 40th Annual Dove Awards are the following nominees in the two bluegrass categories. Bluegrass Recorded Song (song; album; artist; writer; label) Help

Why Old Time? is a new film from Chris Valluzzo and Sean Kotz of Horse Archer Productions that seeks to answer that musical question in a documentary film format. The project is still in the editing stage, and Valluzzo told us

To celebrate their 15th year in operation, the Wayne C. Henderson Music Festival & Guitar Competition will award $15,000 in scholarships in 2009 to further the study of traditional American music by young people. The festival sets aside a portion

Last Tuesday evening (2/17) Dailey & Vincent, the multiple IBMA and SPBGMA award winners, played their debut concert in New York City. The set included several songs from the Statler Brothers' repertoire as well as from their forthcoming album, Brothers From

Hadley Music Group, who recently released Walk This Mountain Down, their second CD from Donna Ulisse, has also created a web video to showcase Donna and the new album. It was produced by String Theory Media in Nashville, and includes interviews

Tim O'Brien was a guest this week on Folk Alley, where folk, acoustic, Americana and Celtic music is streamed 24/7. He performed several songs from his 2008 release, Chameleon, just as he did on the CD - solo, with just his