Media

Every so often, we find a wealth of opportunities to catch live bluegrass on the radio, and this next few days promises a bonanza over the air, online and via satellite. Dennis Jones will have Dan Paisley & The Southern Grass

The Larry Stephenson Band will be Kyle Cantrell's guest for this week's edition of Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. Larry will both discuss and perform music from his new Gospel CD, Thankful, released this March on Pinecastle

Alison Krauss and Robert Plant were featured on the BBC One TV programme Later …. With Jools Holland on Tuesday night, May 6. The duo, currently on tour in Europe performed two songs, Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) and

Our friend Craig Havighurst has posted a YouTube video bio of Sierra Hull. Craig produced the video for Rounder Records to coincide with the release, yesterday, of Sierra's new CD, Secrets. We got to produce this video bio of Sierra that

John Santa is a songwriter, audio technician and sound designer in Chapel Hill, NC. He is also a newly-minted bluegrass picker, playing mandolin with the EightTwentythree band, a passion he developed after many years playing rock and blues music. His discovery

Last week was a good'n for bluegrass and old time music on the CMT Pure 12-Pack Countdown video competition. Uncle Earl's Steak O' Lean was the #1 viewer-voted video, and Mountain Heart's Road With No End was #2. These two beat

Singer/songwriter Liz Meyer wrote in to let us know how the EWOB festival went this past weekend. She tells us the weather was great in Voorthuizen and the music was even better. For three days this small Dutch town was teaming

Our friend Dave Hollender gave us a nice report last month after Chris Thile and Punch Brothers offered a clinic at the Berklee College of Music in Boston on April 7. Dave shared some photos and a nice run down

The Weekend Edition of NPR News' All Things Considered, airing this evening (Saturday, May 3rd), will feature an interview with Ray Davis, who has just marked his 60th year of radio broadcasting. The program airs live from 5 to 6pm. (ET);

Ray Davis, currently host of The Ray Davis Show on WAMU's Bluegrass Country, celebrates 60 years in broadcasting today (May 2). Davis joined WAMU in 1985 to host Saturday Bluegrass, and shared hosting duties for the weekday afternoon program, Bluegrass Country,