Bluegrass band news

With his distinctive high tenor vocals and instrumental talents, Lou Reid is no stranger to bluegrass fans. During his career he has been a founding member of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver and performed in Ricky Skaggs' band. He has also

Larry Sparks & The Lonesome Ramblers will be featured on the Grand Ole Opry radio broadcast this weekend. Larry will appear in the 8:00-8:30 and 11:00-11:30 time slots, both eastern time. Unfortunately, the GAC cable television network is not carrying this

B???la Fleck & The Flecktones launch the second leg of their 2006 Tour today (3/15), in support of their newest Columbia release, The Hidden Land. They start out with two shows in Lexington, KY and then continue on a swing

Chris Davis, mandolinist with Larry Cordle & Lonesome Standard Time, and his wife Rhonda are celebrating the birth of their son. The LST web site reports that mother and child are at home, and doing fine. A baby picture is

The diligent staff of the International Bluegrass Music Association is currently assembling their list of eligible recordings for the 2006 IBMA Awards voting. This list is distributed with the first round (nominating) ballot sent to all voting members of the

The Lynn Morris Band website has some photos of Lynn at last month's SPBGMA Convention in Nashville, where she both performed with the band and accepted the 2006 Grand Masters Gold Award. This award is given to artists who have

We heard recently from Greg Cahill, our friend and occasional Guest Contributor here on Bluegrass Today, who passed along some details on Special Consensus' activities so far in 2006. Greg tells us that they have recently started work on a

Gracie Muldoon, one of our regular correspondents and a popular Internet bluegrass cybercaster, responded to our post last week about Nothin' Fancy on MySpace.com.???She wanted to let us know that a good many bluegrass bands had pages there, and that

The John Cowan Band was recently in the studio where they recorded a number of tracks for exclusive online distribution through Sony's Connect. Sony is presenting Connect as an alternative to Apple's iTunes Music Store. The Cowan tracks should be

Wallace Lewis, one of the founding members of The Lewis Family, is back home after being hospitalized since the last week of January. He went in as a result of high fever and kidney problems, and was diagnosed with pneumonia