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
Bluegrass instructional resources
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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
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Mini-Mon Camp at The Station Inn this April
Mandolin Cafe and the Monroe Mandolin Camp have scheduled a two day, weekend mini-camp for mandolins only, billed as a Mini-Mon Camp. It will be held April 4-5 at Nashville's Station Inn, and no... it won't feature a diminutive Bill Monroe
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Noam Pikelny coming to ArtistWorks in 2020
ArtistWorks, the multi-instrument, multi-genre video learning system for online instruction, has announced that they will be bringing banjo wizard Noam Pikelny onto their faculty in the spring of this year. From the time he hit the scene as a member of Leftover
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Blooper reel and teaser video from Rob Ickes and Josh Swift
When reso master Josh Swift announced his departure from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver a few weeks ago, he wasn't planning on retiring from the music business. In fact, part of the reason he left was to give him time to
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Thompson Guitars launches Northwest Flatpick Camp
Preston Thompson Guitars has announced the launch of Northwest Flatpick Camp, their first weekend guitar workshop in Sisters, OR. They have partnered with the Oregon Bluegrass Association and Sisters Folk Festival to bring Dan Miller and Tim May up to
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Adjunct instructors sought for ETSU bluegrass program
The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program at East Tennessee State University is requesting applications for adjunct instructors for many of the instruments taught in the program. Like most universities, the school supplements its full-time faculty with adjuncts who
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Monroe Mandolin Camp adds new Ambassador program
The Monroe Mandolin Camp, a multi-discipline bluegrass instructional camp dedicated to the music left to us by Bill Monroe, has announced an in-house mentorship program for new students during their 7th annual weekend of workshops in 2020. New attendees will each
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Revised edition of A Fiddler’s Guide To Moveable Shapes
A little more than two years ago we reviewed a very clever instructional book for fiddlers, written by Nashville musician John Mailander. Titled A Fiddler's Guide To Moveable Shapes, it conveys information in a succinct fashion that will be highly
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Gallop To Georgia – CD, book, and video from Mike Compton and Norman Blake
Most everyone who enjoys bluegrass and old time mandolin is familiar with Mike Compton, from his long career with The Nashville Bluegrass Band or The John Hartford String Band, or perhaps his appearance in the Coen Brothers' O Brother, Where