We continue to be impressed by the ingenuity and creativity of bluegrass artists who, faced with this sudden enforced inactivity, find ways to use their skills and talents to keep some food on the table. And with the ability to
Bluegrass instructional resources
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Flatpicking Guitar Magazine releases Beginner’s Page book
Guitarists who remember the 20 years of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine will surely recall their Beginner's Page column which ran in each issue while the magazine was in publication. Written by Dan Huckabee, it included tips and tricks for players new
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Floyd Country Store introduces Handmade Music School online
Businesses and venues dedicated to live music have had a rough time this past few months. Restaurants and clubs, plus concert halls of every size have each been forced to cancel dozens of scheduled events, with all involved suffering loss
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Dave Yates designs teaching isolation shield for face-to-face lessons
Necessity is most definitely the mother of invention, and that’s exactly what led east Tennessee-based music instructor, Dave Yates, to come up with a plan to get back to work as soon as possible. Yates, who has taught bluegrass and
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Camp Tunefox moves to online instruction
Everyone involved with education has seen a great deal of rapid innovation during the great hunkering down of 2020. Children as young as kindergarten age have moved to online instruction, and even the hallowed halls of post-secondary learning are struggling
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Mixed Lead Style for 2 Finger Banjo
Sebastian Schröder has released the third volume in his series of instructional books on 2 finger banjo, a pre-bluegrass style that has enjoyed a surge in popularity among serious students of American old time music of late. The first two books
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Old Time Fiddle Tune Favorites from Tristan Scroggins
Popular Nashville mandolinist Tristan Scroggins has published a book containing 15 familiar jam tunes called Old Time Fiddle Tune Favorites. The book is just as the title describes. Tristan has selected a group of tunes that are very common in jam
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Modern Mandolin Workshop launches in November
Round Window Institute, the non-profit outfit that produces the Banjo Summit in Colorado, has announced a new venture launching later this year. Modern Mandolin Workshop will run from November 5-7 at the Music District in Fort Collins, CO. Faculty will include
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Glenville State bluegrass at SPBGMA 2020
Glenville State students, faculty, family, and friends at The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville As we mentioned last week, program director of bluegrass at Glenville State College, Megan Darby, took a group of students, alumni, and friends with her to SPBGMA
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Gospel bluegrass focus starting at ETSU
East Tennessee State University in Johnson City has offered a degree program in Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, and Country Music Studies for several years now. For maybe two decades before granting the degree, the program existed as a study focus