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
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Stephen Mougin adds band coaching opportunities
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
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Carolina Bluegrass Band auditions next month at UNC
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
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Scholarships available to Steve Gulley’s Music Camp in TN
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
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Murphy Method re-releases beginning banjo DVDs shot in HD
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
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Job opening at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music
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.
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ETSU faculty responds to No Depression article
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
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Nick DiSebastian transcriptions to MTSU Center For Popular Music
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
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Banjo instructor sought at UNC Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the largest and primary campus of the 17 that make up the UNC system, is advertising now for a banjo instructor in their Music Department. This addition is part of their Bluegrass Initiative,
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Bluegrass Camp Germany another success in ’17
Our friend, Phil Leadbetter, sent along this report from Bluegrass Camp Germany, where he has held the resonator guitar chair since its inception. This year, Bluegrass Camp Germany was held on on May 2017. The camp takes place in the Bavarian