Media

From Ronnie Reno, via J.D. Rhynes, who posted on the California Bluegrass Association web site, comes word that Merle Haggard is working on a bluegrass project. That CBA news posting elicited a response from Elida Ickes on the CBA message board

I found an interesting piece on Xinhua online, an English language version of ChinaView.cn about a set of performances this weekend by Sparrow Quartet in Bejing. The group includes Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn on banjos, with Casey Driessen on

Tomorrow's edition of Studio Special on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction will feature Chris Thile and his How To Grow A Band. The show, which will be repeated several times over the following week, is a mix of live performance

Christian rock artist David Crowder's last CD, A Collision, was promoted as a mixture of different styles including bluegrass. The recording did feature banjo on several tracks and one of the tracks could even be considered a bluegrass gospel standard.

The Associated Press is reporting (via News Channel 5 in Nashville) that Gabrielle Gray has switched positions within the leadership of the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. Gray had been serving as the museum's Executive Director, a post she

Continuing our print media bluegrass news roundup... This past Friday's edition of The Boston Globe carried a feature by Globe staffer Joan Anderman on Crooked Still, an innovative Boston-based acoustic quartet which we have lauded in recent months. What makes this group

Sugar Hill has just released a couple of videos shot backstage prior to a Chris Thile & How To Grow A Band show in Nashville on August 30, 2006. The first is a montage of clips showing the band arriving at

Thanks go to reader David Hobby, who passed along this link to a feature that ran in yesterday's edition of The Baltimore Sun. The story is about a regular Friday night jam session in Deale, MD and describes a scenario that

The Washington Post contains a brief review in today's edition of the latest release from J.D. Crowe & The New South, Lefty's Old Guitar, which we celebrated when it hit the street in early October. After a quick overview of the

Listen now: (IE users click to activate) This week's guest on The GrassCast is mandolin legend and Grand Ole Opry star, Jesse McReynolds. Jesse has a new CD out titled Dixie Road. He had a copy