Bluegrass instructional resources

How many steel string acoustic guitars do you think are sold each year? I don't know either, but it must surely be in the millions. With a large bulk of them being sold - or given - to folks without much

Homespun Video has released two new instructional DVDs for mandolinists taught by Mike Marshall. The two releases each carry the title Mike Marshall's Mandolin Fundamentals for All Players, with DVD #1 subtitled Building Technique Through Exercises and Melodic Studies and DVD

James Montgomery discovered bluegrass music at age 9 in his native North Carolina. He was suffering from polio and spent a lot of time listening to the radio. Now, 68 years later, and retired in Austin, TX, Montgomery recently donated

Speaking of free tabs... Mando monster Alan Bibey has recently added a free tab section on his new web site, where he also plans to offer tips for mandolinists. The first two transcriptions posted are for mandolin tunes Alan has written and

Our friends at BluegrassCollege.org are ringing in the New Year with the launch of their free Bluegrass College Fakebook. The Fakebook currently consists of tabs (notation for the fiddle) for 10 bluegrass instrumentals. The tabs are available for all the bluegrass

Homespun Video is set to release a new instructional DVD this week featuring Peter Rowan and Tony Rice. Entitled Peter Rowan and Tony Rice Teach Songs, Guitar and Musicianship, the DVD runs 110 minutes with Rowan Rice teaching a half

The Transatlantic Bluegrass School, scheduled for May 7-11, 2008 in the Welsh town of Pembrokeshire, has announced the formation of a  scholarship program for young students, aged 16-25, based on financial need. The scholarship awards will cover the full tuition costs,

Mel Bay Publications has a new book/CD set sure to be of interest to serious mandolinists. The Complete Mandolinist is written by Marilynn Mair, a professor of music at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island and an internationally recognized artist and

Alan Munde has made a career out of playing the banjo, something he once joked about in an interview. He described meeting a girlfriend's parents as a young man, and answering their obvious question about what he did for a

IBMA's Bluegrass in the Schools program runs an annual lesson plan competition which encourages school teachers to submit the lesson plan they have developed to teach children bluegrass music. One of the winners for 2007 is Sally Stuart of Mayflower, AR.