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Tony Trischka is in Los Angeles today to tape an appearance for The Ellen DeGeneres Show with banjo picking comedian/actor Steve Martin. This show is set to air on Thursday, February 8. Times vary from one market to another. They will

The 2007 SPBGMA Awards Show was this last weekend and here are the winners in each category. I know there were a lot of great nominations for each of these awards so congratulations to each of the winners. Looks like it

The Crooked Road, Virginia's Heritage Music Trail, has a brand new web site, with a fun twist and a chance to win a custom built mandolin or guitar. The Trail is the state of Virginia's official tour guide for traditional

Knoxville, TN radio station WDVX plays a blend of music styles that cover the gamut of acoustic styles including bluegrass, gospel, and americana. The station provides an online media player as well as support for Windows Media 96K, and a

Award-winning photojournalist Stephanie P. Ledgin has created a video montage of some of her images of bluegrass and roots music artists, and posted it on YouTube. She created two versions of the video, one with a bluegrass music track, and

We got a new CD recently that will appeal to folks who like to hear simple old time and folk melodies played on stringed instruments, in an unassuming, relaxed style. It's called Straight From The Porch, and comes from

Bluegrass/country star Alison Krauss will make an appearance Monday (2/5) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, performing with veteran British pop singer John Waite. They will sing Waite's recent re-recording of his 1984 hit, Missing You, which was redone

The February issue of the UK based magazine Acoustic, features an interview with mandolin master Chris Thile. Chris in nominated for a BBC Folk Award for Musician of the Year. The article is basically an interview where Chris shares his

We found a couple of recent online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The Canadian Press has an AP piece on Rhonda Vincent which focuses on her musical upbringing in The Sally Mountain Show with her family, including

More great bluegrass radio news for the upcoming football weekend. The Saturday Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast on WSM will include performances from John Starling & Carolina Star, along with Bobby Osborne, Mike Snider, and Del McCoury. The Whites, Emmy Lou