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Former Dillard and current fiction writer Mitch Jayne has just learned that he will be receiving the 2008 Governor's Humanities Book Award from the Missouri Humanities Council. The award is in recognition of his book, Fiddler's Ghost, published in 2007.

Tonight (9/9), young bluegrassers The Wright Kids take the stage of NBC's America's Got Talent to try and pick and sing their way into the show's Top 10 finalists. Winners are chosen each week by audience vote, and the kids

The new Bluegrass Music Profiles is out, with The Grascals on the cover. The September/October '08 issue finds Grascals Jamie Johnson and Danny Roberts interviewed about the band's latest CD, Keep On Walkin', their newest member (fiddler Jeremy Abshire), and their

The Infamous Stringdusters were featured last week on Acoustic Cafe. They joined host Rob Reinhart in the studio to talk about their latest CD (The Infamous Stringdusters), their songwriting process, and how they work together as a band. Several tracks from

September is very significant in the life of Bill Monroe, inasmuch as it is the month when he was born (September 13, 1911), and and the one in which he passed away (September 9, 1996). Recently, I learned of a new

Jayme Stone and Mansa Sissoko's cross-cultural musical adventure, Africa To Appalachia, will be released in the US next Tuesday (September 9) with a lengthy tour of the states starting on September 15. Stone, the Canadian banjoist, and Sissoko, a Malian kora

Among the non-music web sites that I enjoy most regularly are ones that use satire and faux-news stories in humorous ways. Sites like The Onion and Stuff White People Like really tickle my funny bone, though with humor being such

News that No Depression magazine would cease publication of their print edition this summer issue brought forth a good many long faces and audible sighs among their loyal readers. For 13 years they were a strong, independent voice on American

We told you last week about The Wright Kids appearing on the August 27 episode of America's Got Talent. It sounds like a lot of folks watched and voted, as they were moved through to next week's 2nd round shows. It's not

Blue Plate Special, the long-running noontime radio show on WDVX has a big dose of bluegrass on the program this week. Today's show (9/3) features Gold Heart a terrific young family bluegrass group from northern Virginia. The band is made up