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We posted last month with news about a number of bluegrass, or bluegrass-related videos that were selected to compete in CMT.com's Music City Madness online video contest. The first round of voting has concluded, and two of the four we mentioned

Orrin Star notes on his web site that 2007 marks his 30th year traveling the road as a professional acoustic musician. During that time, he has performed on both mandolin and guitar, in a variety of duos and groups, and

Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper featuring Audie Blaylock have a 10 day Canadian tour in the works for next month. Their first show is on April 20 in Ontario, where they will spend the largest part of their time in Canada. All

Doug McElway is a popular television news anchor on WJLA, the ABC affiliate station in Washington, DC. He is also an accomplished bluegrass banjo player, a dedicated husband and father - and a daily reader of Bluegrass Today. This past Tuesday

We've written a good bit recently about Mountain Heart's new vocalist, Josh Shilling, and the reaction to the band's new sound. Today's edition of the Knoxville News Sentinel has an interview with Mountain Heart mandolinist Adam Stefey about this very

The Duhks recently recorded a live set, complete with interviews, for AT&T blue room. Click on their photo on the blue room front page, or look in the Live Performances tab, upper left. They perform Out Of The Rain, Down To

How convenient would it be to have a chord chart, metronome and pitch pipe available on your mobile phone? If the answer is, "quite, thank you very much," you'll be interested in Chord Genie, a cell phone application from British

Students of the history of commercial country music in the United States have a special fondness for Bristol, TN and the story of the Bristol Sessions in 1927. It was in July of that year that Ralph Peer journeyed there

The latest issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles is in the mail, and subscribers should see it in their mailbox soon - if they haven't already received it. The cover feature is an interview with Russell Moore of IIIrd Tyme Out,

Pinecastle Records has released three new CD projects this week, each of which we had previewed for you here prior to their street date. They have also launched a new, completely redesigned web site which Andy Evans at Pinecastle tells