If you tune in (log on) to WorldWideBluegrass.com at 6:00 p.m. EDT this evening (7/31), you can hear an interview with Greg Cahill, banjo player with Special Consensus, and Board Chair for the IBMA. He will join WWB host Uncle
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Don Rigsby on ABC
Some of you may have caught Don Rigsby's appearance last night on the ABC-TV reality series Six Degrees of Separation. The concept behind the series is that anyone is only six steps away from contacting anyone else on the planet.
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Old Crow in AT&T blue room
AT&T blue room has just posted live video from Old Crow Medicine Show. Five songs are included, each in a separate clip: Big Time, Minglewood Blues, Hard To Love, Lift Him Up, and Tell It To Me. The performances were recorded
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Sparks, Cowan, King Wilkie interviews online
Here are three interviews we found this past few days in local newspapers' coverage of upcoming entertainment events. First up is King Wilkie, whose Reid Burgess was interviewed in The Dallas Morning News on July 23. He spoke with Mario Tarradell
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WAMU 40th aniversary celebration
WAMU, and it's online sister station BluegrassCountry.org, are celebrating the summer of 2007 as their 40th year broadcasting bluegrass music. It was in 1967 that Dick Spottswood and Gary Henderson, who were among the founders of Bluegrass Unlimited magazine that
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Krauss on GAC rescheduled for 8/11-20
In June we told you about an upcoming special on GAC TV, featuring Alison Krauss performing songs from her latest Rounder CD, Hundred Miles Or More. In mid-July, we posted again to alert everyone that the initially announced air date
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Mitch Jayne – Fiddler’s Ghost
Former Dillards bass player Mitch Jayne has just released his latest book of fiction. Fiddler's Ghost is the story of a young couple who move to a small Ozark town where the locals folks live by customs that seem generations out
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Loads of bluegrass from the Opry
There is a ton of bluegrass emanating from The Grand Ole Opry this weekend - on radio, online, and on TV. Friday night's radio broadcast will feature performances by Bobby Osborne, John Cowan and Mountain Heart, and Saturday's show has John
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Flatpicking Guitar Magazine: Best of the First Ten Years
Now in it's 11th year, Flatpicking Guitar Magazine has just released a series of CD-ROM compilations containing articles and tablatures from the Best of the First Ten Years of the magazine. The series consists of 4 discs, each pulling articles on
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Skaggs/Hornsby – front and backstage view
Ricky Skaggs and his collaboration with Bruce Hornsby have been the topic of a number of recent pieces on Bluegrass Today. We told you earlier this month about the two appearing on the CBS Early Show with Skaggs' band, Kentucky Thunder,