Media

We posted a number of times of late about the recently-concluded European World Of Bluegrass events held in May across the continent. The European Bluegrass Music Association celebrates May as Bluegrass Music Month, with coordinated festivals and events that ran

When we first announced the imminent release of The Lewis Family's new CD, Flying High, we mentioned that CMT had filmed some of the recording sessions for an upcoming edition of their CMT Insider program. The show has been scheduled to

Sirius Satellite Radio announced yesterday that Del McCoury will host his own hour-long music program, exclusively available on Sirius Channel 65. Hand Picked with Del McCoury will debut on June 24, and air each Saturday at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern). Each week,

For the next two weeks, The GrassCast will focus on bluegrass songwriters. Episode 33 is a discussion with Mark "Brink" Brinkman, whose publishing company, Brinksongs, has been successful getting cuts on projects from Don Rigsby, The Kruger Brothers, Pine Mountain

Rhonda Vincent will be the guest this week on Kyle Cantrell's Studio Special program, which runs on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction (Channel 14). Each week Kyle welcomes a guest into the studio for interviews and live performance. Rhonda and The

This Saturday night at 6PM EST BluegrassRadio.org will be broadcasting a one hour radio special entitled Ralph Stanley: A Distant Land To Roam, Songs of the Carter Family. This is a special program that includes music from Stanley's new CD

The folks at WHUS in Storrs, CT who host Bluegrass Cafe (each Sunday from 4:00-6:00 p.m.) have started their own blog. The primary thrust of the new Bluegrass Cafe blog is to post their playlist each week, but site author

We have mentioned New Tattoo, the just-released CD from The John Cowan Band, a number of times this past few months. It was officially released yesterday, and the band has created a full-featured e-card to help promote the CD. The

The newest host to join WorldWideBluegrass.com's daily cybercast is Jeff DeFord, whose show will originate from Arizona. Jeff's show debuts this evening, and will run each Wednesday evening from 8:00-10:00 p.m. (Eastern). The playlist is expected to mix string band

Mountain Stage, the long-running roots music radio show hosted by Larry Groce, and now also offered on television, will travel to Bristol (TN/VA) to record shows in honor of Bristol's status as "The Birthplace Of Country Music." An organization by