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This post is a contribution from Dave Roye, known to many of our readers as Crawdaddy Dave. Some of northern Virginia's finest bluegrass musicians will be performing in a musical tribute to bluegrass radio personality Red Shipley on Saturday, March 25th,

Just a quick reminder that the Deering Banjos episode of John Ratzenberger's Made In America program on the cable network Travel Channel is scheduled to run on Tuesday, March 7. The show airs at 9:00 p.m. (EST), but as always,

The Gibson Brothers will be Kyle Cantrell's guests on Studio Special this next few weeks on XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction. The Gisons recorded some live music with Kyle in the studio, and discussed their new CD, Red Letter Day,

We received a note earlier in the week from our friend, Derek Brandon, mentioning that he had recently posted the most recent edition of North West Bluegrass News online. The North West in this case, is the northwestern part of

Our good buddy Wichita Rutherford interviews Bela Fleck in the latest episode of his podcast 5 Minutes With Wichita. As usual, it's hilarious and worth spending 5 minutes on. I was a little worried for my friend at one point,

Episode #18 of The GrassCast features an interview with fiddle legend Bobby Hicks. John and Bobby discuss his storied career in both bluegrass and country music - starting with Bill Monroe while still his teens, through The Bluegrass Album

The March/April 2006 issue of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine includes an extensive cover story on Ron Block, who serves as both banjoist and guitarist with Alison Krauss & Union Station. The companion audio CD has two tunes that Ron recorded

One of the hottest bluegrass video projects of the past year has been Rhonda Vincent & The Rage's Ragin' Live. Released simultaneously on DVD and audio CD in March of 2005, Ragin' Live captured Rhonda and the band in a

There is now one more bluegrass podcast in circulation over the internet. Planet Bluegrass is now hosting a bi-weekly podcast featuring interviews with performers scheduled to appear at upcoming festivals. The podcast also includes memories from past festivals and news

The March issue of Silver Strings - a banjo "ezine" for new pickers getting started later in life - is now available online. The publication is meant to be roughly equal parts informational, instructional and motivational, with a new issue