Music

Renowned fiddle instructor Brian Wicklund and Canadian fiddle master April Verch have joined forces to bring a new instructional book/CD to market, American Fiddle Method: Canadian Fiddle Styles. The book and CD set will introduce the student to the Canadian fiddle

If you like cute kids and bluegrass music, this video is bound to take you in. It's a documentary on The Muellers, a family bluegrass band from Maine, created by film students at nearby Colby College. It's up on YouTube in

Jerry Douglas, certified master of the resonator guitar, has a new CD due out August 19 on Koch Records. This will be his 12th solo project in a career that spans more than 30 years, and stints with a who's

Richard Thompson reviews a CD from the Spring of 2007 that he wishes he had written much sooner. Hunter Berry, a native of Elizabethton, in the foothills of eastern Tennessee, began playing the fiddle at the age of nine, learning partly

Long Road, the new CD from former Leftover Salmonite Drew Emmitt, is due out next Tuesday (7/15) on Compass Records. The bulk of the songs are Emmitt originals and the core group of musicians include Chris Pandolfi on banjo, Tyler Grant

Homespun has released mandolin transcription books to match two recent CDs from Butch Baldassari, Mandolin Hyms and Appalachian Mandolin & Dulcimer. Each book contains complete mandolin transcriptions in both tablature and standard notation, plus a copy of the original CD. Mandolin

Bryan Simpson of Cadillac Sky just shot us a note with news about one of the songs on their upcoming CD, Gravity's Our Enemy, set for an August 19 Skaggs Family release. It's not really a single release, but one of

AcuTab Publications has news of several new bluegrass instructional DVDs due during the summer and fall of 2008. Just completed shooting is a fiddle project with Mountain Heart's Jim Van Cleve which will go into editing shortly. Jim covered a number

Geez... It seems like everyone in bluegrass but me and Brance are heading for Europe this summer. Jimmy Bowen & Santa Fe are in Holland and Norway this week with five shows scheduled. Wednesday July 9 - Turfschip, Nieuwkoop Thursday July 10th -

The Grascals sent along this photo from their appearance on the CBS Early Show this past Saturday (7/5), where they performed the title track from their upcoming CD, Keep On Walkin', due from Rounder on July 15. They asked us to