• Nickel Creek live show on NPR tonight

    When Nickel Creek performs live tonight (11/2) at Washington DC nightspot 9:30 Club, National Public Radio's microphones will be set up, carrying the entire concert live via online streaming at NPR.org. The band is in the home stretch of their Farewell

  • Grammy committee says Hag is not bluegrass

    The nominating committee for the National Academy Of Recording Arts & Sciences, who distribute the Grammy Awards each year, decided yesterday that the new release from Merle Haggard, titled The Bluegrass Sessions would not be eligible for Grammy consideration in

  • Bush and Douglas on BluegrassCountry.org

    This morning (11/1), BluegrassCountry.org has interviews on tap with a couple of bluegrass and acoustic music legends. Sam Bush drops by at 9:00 a.m. to talk with Katy Daley about his current tour with Edgar Meyer and Jerry Douglas, which stops

  • Bill Emerson interview online

    We've posted recently about banjo man Bill Emerson's new CD, Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band, and the former member of The Country Gentlemen, The Sunny Mountain Boys and the US Navy Band's Country Current coming back to music

  • Larry Keel on Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour

    Acoustic guitar Maharishi Larry Keel, along with his band Natural Bridge, will be making an appearance on WoodSongs Old Time Radio Hour on Monday, November 12, 2007. If you've ever seen Keel and band in concert you know what kind of

  • Bluegrass Halloween on WOMR

    The Bradford Street Bluegrass show on WOMR-FM is being given over to haunts and haints tomorrow in honor of Halloween. The show airs regularly on Wednesday evenings from 5:00-8:00 p.m. (ET), so the program hosts decided to use a Halloween

  • Lonesome County

    OK... I've been promising to try and catch up on a backlog of new CDs we've received (or picked up at IBMA) - and this time, I really mean it! Since major news is slow this time of year, I'll

  • Randy Kohrs video #3 at CMT.com

    Last week we posted about the new Randy Kohrs video being included in the Pure 12-Pack Countdown on CMT's new digital music channel, CMT Pure. Randy was pitted against top country entertainers for viewer votes, and he came in number

  • Bluegrass on Fox – week 2

    This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. Both Cliff Wagner and the Old #7 and the Clark

  • World banjo music on CBC tonight

    And yet even more great music on the radio today... Tonight (10/26) at 8:00 p.m., Canadian banjoist Jayme Stone will be featured on CBC Radio 2's Canada Live program. CBC will be broadcasting a pair of concerts featuring Stone's eclectic tastes