Bluegrass instructional resources

Bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang has announced that the recipient of the 1st annual Rick Lang Music Scholarship is Alexis Hamilton-Mele. As a writer, Rick has had his songs recorded by dozens of bluegrass acts, from Junior Sisk to IIIrd Tyme Out,

If you are a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and want to get course credit for playing bluegrass, it's time to get it touch with the music department and sign up for the Bluegrass Ensemble

The Monroe Mandolin Camp, hosted the past five years by Mike Compton and Heidi Herzog, will also hold a series of Mini-Mon-Camp retreats in 2019 at various locations around the US. When they started, the focus was on presenting the music

The DC Bluegrass Union has established a scholarship to honor the late Orrin Star, a Washington-area musician and teacher who died in November 2017 at the age of 62. The annual scholarship will fund participation in the summer bluegrass camp that

If you were to visit Anni Beach’s house on a Tuesday and Thursday afternoon you would be well able to ascertain what is happening indoors, long before reaching the door of the humble home located in an immigrant neighborhood of

This past weekend the bluegrass program at Glenville State College in West Virginia held their sixth and final youth music camp of the year for students in the Glenville community. It was led by Megan Darby, Assistant Professor of Music

Old Favorites is the latest release from The Murphy Method, which finds Casey Henry teaching you how to play a half dozen familiar songs on the banjo. The Murphy Method is a system of teaching by watching and memorizing, designed and

Those of us bluegrass veterans who have been playing since the 1960s or '70s are given to occasional wonder at the many innovations that have occurred in instructional technology since we learned to play bluegrass. While a few may grouse

Tony Trischka leads a banjo class at the initial Ashoken Bluegrass Camp - photo by Stewart Dean The Ashokan Center in New York recently hosted their initial bluegrass camp, after successfully holding instructional camps for old time, klezmer, and other forms

Patton Wages with Volume Five - photo by Ted Lehmann Pickers in north Georgia have a great new opportunity to study with a top pro player. Patton Wages, banjo player with Volume Five, will be teaching at Acoustic Cellar Guitars in Clarkesville