Bluegrass band news

We posted last week with the news that Missy Raines would be leaving her position with Claire Lynch to pursue her own group full time. We asked Missy to share a few words about her new endeavor, and her feelings upon

The Dan Tyminski Band performed their debut show this past week, offering two sets at Nashville's Station Inn on Wednesday evening. Our friend, old time banjo picker Tina Trianosky, was at the show and sent us some impressions - and found

Banjo legend JD Crowe is nothing if not a survivor. Very few bluegrass artists have made a career leading a band without being a lead vocalist, but Crowe has not only done so, he has managed to both succeed over

Sirius Bluegrass (Channel 65) is giving New Year's Eve over to Del McCoury, with 36 hours of back-to-back McCoury. Starting Monday (12/31) at noon and running throughout New Year's Day, Sirius Bluegrass will air encore presentations of their Hand Picked with

Missy Raines has announced that she will leave her position as bass player with The Claire Lynch Band, her musical home for the past 12 years, to focus full-time on her own group, Missy Raines & The New Hip. The band

This weekend's two Grand Ole Opry broadcasts have much to recommend them to bluegrass fans. Tonight's show (12/28) will feature performances by The Grascals, Bradley Walker and Bobby Osborne & The Rocky Top X-Press. The show is broadcast on WSM AM-650

We've posted repeatedly about Punch Brothers, the most recent permutation of Chris Thile's supremely talented band of acoustic superpickers. Their debut release on Nonesuch Records is due on 2/28/08 built around Thile's composition, The Blind Leaving The Blind - a magnum

We interrupt our Christmas programming for this final NGAB report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. The family

I managed to slide over to the Mountain Heart video shoot last night in Salem, VA. The guys had already spent part of the day shooting footage at a number sites in the Roanoke area, and had assembled at the

The Dan Tyminski Band is still hard at work in the studio, trying to complete the recording of their debut CD before they begin touring in January '08. At this point, Rounder is looking for an early spring release for