Music

Not long ago, we posted about the launch of a new record label, Casa Nueva, headed up by former Rounder Records product manager Brad San Martin. At that time, Brad told us that his first release on the new label

Bononia Grass, from Bologna in Italy, finished the month of March with the #1 video in the live performance category on OurStage.com, a social network-like site where fans vote on new music uploaded by independent artists. Their street performance of Six

Subscribers to Sirius-XM will have a first chance to hear music from the next Doyle Lawson CD, Lonely Street, starting tomorrow (4/1) on Bluegrass Junction. Doyle joins host Kyle Cantrell at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) to play each of the album's 12

Berklee College of Music has been showing a lot of interest in acoustic, stringed music in the last few years. The formation of the acoustic string principal at the school has led to recruiting forays at IBMA and other bluegrass

Tomorrow, March 31, is the release date for the long-anticipated second CD from Dailey & Vincent, Brothers From Different Mothers. Following up a successful debut project is always tricky, with expectations from fan, media and industry all setting a high bar.

Host Bob Webster will feature an interview with bluegrass legend Bobby Osborne on this week's (3/29) edition of Stained Glass Bluegrass on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. Osborne's new CD, Bluegrass & Beyond, will be released on Rounder this Tuesday (3/31), and Bob

Back in the fall of 2007 we told you about the Appalachian Music: Roots and Influences concentration being offered at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. At the time we reported that former Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass

Alan Munde has released yet another in his lifelong legacy of banjo instructional materials. This latest, Banjo for the young Beginner (Mel Bay), is designed to take younger banjo students from basic strums to roll-style arrangements of familiar songs like Wildwood

Sugar Hill will release a new solo project from Jeremy Garrett of The Infamous Stringdusters on March 31. I Am A Stranger features Garrett on fiddle and vocals supported by his Stringduster brethren and a host of other top bluegrass pickers

The next secular release from Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, entitled Lonely Street, will be released on May 5. The album, recorded October and November 2008 at Crossroads Studios, Arden, North Carolina, and produced by Lawson, features 11 bluegrass tracks and a