Banjo legend Béla Fleck has announced his first-ever banjo workshop weekend, the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, to be held August 15-19th, 2018 at the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, NC. Assisting will be Tony Trischka, Kristin Scott Benson, and Mike Munford. Applications must be
Noted Nashville guitarist and educator Stephen Mougin, known to friends as Mojo, has struck a deal with online instructional company TrueFire to produce an overview course called Bluegrass Rhythm Evolution. Their system is based on a free application that allows online
The most recent upgrade to the Tunefox app not only offers significant improvements to the operation of the tablature offerings, but it is now also available for mandolin and guitar as well as banjo. Tunefox is available as a free download
The Bluegrass Symposium, which debuted this morning in Raleigh, has academically-minded bluegrass fans buzzing as it got underway today in room 304 of the Marriott Convention Center. Throughout the next 24 hours, some of our industry’s sharpest minds will be
Dave Elkington and Megan Darby at Glenville State College The bluegrass music department at Glenville State College in West Virginia was the recent recipient of a collection of audio CDs, books, and periodicals for the use of their students. Dave Elkinton and
Andrew Crawford, Ryan Wilson, Shawn Lane, Patton Wages, and Tyler Williams (front) at Clemson University With classes set to start next Friday (August 25), Ryan Wilson is looking forward to launching the first ever Bluegrass Ensemble in the Music Department at
This article is a contribution from Raymond W. McLain, Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University. When Sarah Wood stepped up to the microphone in Qingdao, China and sang, In A Far Away Place, the resounding
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
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
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
