Bluegrass instructional resources

One aspect of the current pandemic on which almost all parties agree, is the fact that young people are faring very badly away from school. Deprived of in-person teaching as well as social interaction, research shows that many students have

Attention banjo players and students! If you haven't already discovered Eli Gilbert's 12 Days of Licksmas videos, see that you do so post haste. Eli is a young banjo player from Maine, just making it into the under 30 crowd, who

The Appalachian Studies Department at East Tennessee State University has announced an Artist in Residence position in their Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies program. This position is for a bluegrass performing artist with outstanding professional attainments, creative accomplishments, and recognition in the

Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has continued to use his forced down time this year to study and transcribe music from his favorite players. And he makes his efforts available through his Patreon page, where anyone who pledges $5-$10 per month

Brad Laird is one of the busiest bluegrass players you've never met. Unless you live in Georgia, you might not have ever seen him play. But he teaches a large load of students and interacts with thousands of bluegrass lovers

The Walnut Valley Festival, typically held each year in Winfield, KS, has announced a weekend of online workshops in March. Festival coordinators believe that they will be able to host a live, in-person event in September 2021, but based on the

Here are a pair of new releases that will be of interest to admirers of George Jackson's fiddle album of last year, Time and Place, and to fiddlers in particular. The record has been quite popular among fans of contemporary old

If you have a bluegrass guitar player or student on your gift list this year, don't forget the many flatpickers who offer lessons online. Find out who their favorites are, and see what is offered from their web site. One such

Joe Mullins and one of his Radio Ramblers, Adam McIntosh, made the short trip to Springfield, OH earlier this month to present donated instruments to the new Roots Music Club at Global Impact Stem Academy. Through the kindness of Deering Banjos,

East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, perhaps the first major state school to offer a degree in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies, has announced a new concentration. Starting with the Fall 2021 semester, students within the Bluegrass, Old