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Fast Paced World is the title of the fourth CD release from Canadian string band adventurists, The Duhks, due August 12 from Sugar Hill Records. The band has consistently avoided easy labels, with their eclectic mix of styles and influences, though

Last week, Brance had a wonderful story about Joel Sidney, a recent University of California at Berkeley graduate, whose honors thesis was entitled Innovation and Tradition in Bay Area Bluegrass: Historical Review and Analysis of Distinctive Regional Features. Here's another encouraging

J. D. Crowe and Charlie Cushman join Sonny Osborne, Alan Munde, Ned Luberecki, Bill Evans and Frank Neat to round out the teaching staff for the 8th Annual NashCamp Banjo Retreat, October 17-19th at the Hachland Hills Vineyard in Joelton,

Here's the third installment of the video content we're bringing you as part of our Infamous Stringdusters promotion. The album The Infamous Stringdusters, will be released on June 10, 2008. See our original post for information about the pre-order special. This video

Music has long been a medium for the expression of social comment. This is certainly so in country music, if less so within bluegrass. Also, most of the genre's progenitors and many from later generations have come from a rural

Sometimes, new CDs and news of their releases, come in faster than we can post about them. Here is some information about a number of recent projects that may be of interest. We offered a few words about Rick Hayes' debut

We heard yesterday from Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters, filling us in on the band's ongoing European tour. The guys have been there since the beginning of May, and will be appearing in Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic until

We hear from Suzanne Lawson that Alan Johnson, fiddler and bass singer with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver since March of 2007, will be leaving the group at the end of May. Alan has accepted a full-time position with the U.S. Postal

Missy Raines is one of those musicians who seems to defy all the laws of both nature and logic. How can someone be that small, and that good on such a large instrument? Why would a bass player front a