Andrew Crawford, Ryan Wilson, Shawn Lane, Patton Wages, and Tyler Williams (front) at Clemson University With classes set to start next Friday (August 25), Ryan Wilson is looking forward to launching the first ever Bluegrass Ensemble in the Music Department at
This article is a contribution from Raymond W. McLain, Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University. When Sarah Wood stepped up to the microphone in Qingdao, China and sang, In A Far Away Place, the resounding
Raleigh, NC-based banjo player Hank Smith has accepted the banjo lecturer position with the Music Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He will be offering private lessons at the school beginning in the Fall 2017 semester. Smith
Stephen Mougin with his 2016 Momentum Award for Mentor of the Year Stephen Mougin, guitarist with the Sam Bush Band and engineer, owner, and operator at Dark Shadow Recording, has announced that he has stepped down from his position as Director
The first year of bluegrass at the University of North Carolina is in the books, with auditions to join the program in the upcoming fall semester set for next month. The school introduced a bluegrass ensemble into the curriculum of the
The 2017 Acoustic Music Week with Steve Gulley and Friends is set to start this weekend on the campus of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, TN, with lessons and workshops offered for guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, dobro, bass, singing, and
Murphy Henry has been creating instructional video for bluegrass players for so long with her Murphy Method, that she's had to circle back around and re-shoot some of the early lessons to keep up with the expectations of contemporary students. Since
Here’s something for those of you who are education-minded... Hazard Community and Technical College, which is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, is looking for a new faculty member for their Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music.
One of the longstanding traditions of artistic and literary publications is friendly - and at times, not-so-friendly - debates about matters that concern practitioners and connoisseurs of the arts. In the hey day of British literary magazines, it was quite
Bluegrass and jazz musician Nick DiSebastian, who has been recognized as one of the top transcribers in our music, has announced that he is donating his catalog to the Center For Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University for archival