Peghead Nation has announced a new 8-part banjo workshop series with Bill Evans, focusing on Melodic & Single-String Banjo, starting this weekend online. Bill tells us that all levels of skill and experience are welcome for these live sessions, which will
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2022 Grammy Awards rescheduled for April 3
The Recording Academy has announced that the 64th annual Grammy Awards will be held on April 3, after having been postponed from its original date of January 31. The January date was moved for fears of COVID contagion, and artists'
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If Only video from Yonder Mountain String Band
With a new album set for release next month, jamgrass heroes Yonder Mountain String Band are back on the road, and dropping a new music video for one of the new tracks. It's for If Only, written and sung by guitarist
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My Favorite J.D. Crowe lick – Haley Stiltner
Haley Stiltner with Country Current at Lake Havisu (right) - photo by Senior Chief Musician Stephen Hassay This is a new feature we are running to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just
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Pride of Man video from Punch Brothers
In celebration of today's release of Hell On Church Street, their Tony Rice tribute album, Punch Brothers have revealed another live performance video featuring one of the tracks from the record. And before you accuse these fine gentlemen of trying to
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Sonny Osborne, Alan Munde to American Banjo Museum Hall of Fame
The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced the 2022 inductees into their Banjo Hall of Fame. The Museum has been honoring banjoists thusly since 1998, when they were strictly focused on four string (tenor and plectrum) banjo. Opening
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My Favorite J.D. Crowe Lick – Russ Carson
Today we are launching a new feature to memorialize the creative and musical legacy of the late J.D. Crowe, who we lost just before Christmas. We are calling it My Favorite Crowe Lick, and each episode will feature a prominent
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Hutchison Brothers remembered from days at the Seneca Hotel
The Hutchison Brothers are a well remembered part of the bluegrass scene in southeastern Ohio. Starting in the mid-1970s, brothers John (J.D.) on guitar and Bob (Zeke) Hutchison on banjo recorded and performed original music, along with Tom Hampton on
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Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship
The IBMA Foundation has announced today the launch of the new Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship. It will be awarded annually to individuals planning to study broadcasting or sound engineering at college or in a continuing education program with a bluegrass
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Bluegrass Hall of Fame joins Woodsongs in tornado relief
The Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, KY has joined with Lexington-based WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour in soliciting and distributing musical instruments to those who lost everything in the tornadoes that swept through western Kentucky on