Bluegrass instructional resources

We just heard from our friend Chris Stuart, that he will be teaching the songwriting class at next April's Sore Fingers Summer School in England. The camp runs April 9-13, 2007 and is held at the Kingham Hill School, located

Secrets for Successful Flatpicking is the title of a new instructional DVD on Homespun Video with current, and five time IBMA Guitar Player of The Year, Bryan Sutton. The DVD covers both lead and rhythm guitar playing and is described 

Brad Laird at MandoUniversity.com has just published two new books for mandolinists. The first book is titled The Mandolin Handbook - An Owner's Manual. The book's purpose is to help the mandolin owner better understand how their instrument was built, how

Noted bluegrass mandolinist Mike Compton has two new videos up on YouTube. Both are simple productions, and feature Mike playing through a fiddle tune. The first has Mike playing a somewhat obscure Bill Monroe tune, Frog On A Lilly Pad. It

For those of you desiring to learn old-time banjo, or frailing banjo as it's sometimes called, here is a resource you might want to check out. Patrick Costello has a book available called The How and the Tao of Old

IBMA and the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Association will jointly host a Bluegrass In The Schools workshop in Minneapolis, MN early in November. It will be held in conjunction with the Harvest Jamboree festival (11/3-4), and is designed to

The recipients of this year's Charlie Derrington Memorial Scholarship to attend the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend have been announced. Four young musicians (aged 13-24) were selected, each of whom will attend the three day instructional weekend with their full tuition, accommodations

Gibson has made a brief video lesson from Sonny Osborne available on their web site. It is taken from his Homespun DVD, The Bluegrass Banjo of Sonny Osborne, and has him demonstrating his solo for Sunny Side Of The Mountain. The

When AcuTab's book of Herschel Sizemore mandolin transcriptions went out of print earlier this year, the company had no plans for a reprint. Though the book had found an appreciative audience with serious students of bluegrass mandolin, declining book sales

The Banjo Lounge will be hosting an online banjo workshop with Bill Keith on Octber 17. The workshop will run from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. (EST), and will be facilitated by their voice chat system. The fee to participate is