Well, not entirely free. You have to purchase Roland White's Mandolin Christmas instructional book/CD. If you do, Roland will send you set of strings for free. This book has lyrics and mandolin and guitar chord diagrams in addition to easy
Bluegrass instructional resources
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Discount registration for St Louis Flatpick
We just heard from Bull Harman that the discount registration for next year's St. Louis Flatpick expires on December 1. Anyone who signs up for this 3 day guitar and banjo workshop weekend by 12/1 can save $25 on the
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New video available on Butch Robins’ web site
We have posted previously about the blogging efforts of noted banjo player and author, Butch Robins. His descriptions of his travels in Australia were the focus of most of the blog entries of late, but Butch also recorded impressions of
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Bell Buckle Music Cruise – Jan 30 – Feb 3
Bell Buckle Records is hosting their 3rd annual Bell Buckle Music Cruise. The cruise will sail to Coco Cay and Nassau, Bahamas on Royal Caribbean's Sovereign of the Seas. The dates for the cruise are set for January 30 -
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Del McCoury Band at Berklee
We just received another report from David Hollender, a good friend of Bluegrass Today, and a professor at the prestigious Berklee College Of Music in Boston, MA. He wrote to let us know about a recent performance at the school
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Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend Scholarship Recipients on stage
This past weekend, the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend welcomed its first set of recipients of their annual Gibson/Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend Scholarship program. The three recipients were selected based on demonstrated ability from a pool of very capable applicants aged 13-24, which
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Free Saturdays at IBMM debuts with a bang
About six weeks ago, we posted about a new program being offered by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. The program is the museum's Free Saturdays, where people interested in learning bluegrass music can obtain both free instruction
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David Harvey to teach at Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend
As an adjunct to our previous post... The Grascals being invited to open for Brooks & Dunn in NYC means that Danny Roberts is unable to serve on the mandolin faculty for this week's Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend as had previously been
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Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend faculty concert 11/12
One of the highlights of the annual Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend each year is the Saturday evening faculty concert. The primary focus of this three day event is instructional seminars and workshops for students of bluegrass music, and these sessions are
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Banjo NewsLetter 11/05
I just got a note from Donald Nitchie about the next issue of Banjo Newsletter. In the November issue of the Banjo Newsletter we feature the new Smithsonian/Folkways release In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes by Hobart Smith,