• Dan Tyminski speaks

    The Dan Tyminski Band performed in Roanoke this past Friday night, and we had a chance to sit down with Dan before the show to talk a bit about this latest chapter in his storied musical career. We also talked

  • Scheerhorn CD update

    We just received an update from Randy Kohrs about the Scheerhorn Guitars CD we had posted about back in December. The CD is being recorded in Randy's Slack Key Studio to showcase Tim Scheerhorn's celebrated instruments, featuring many of the pro

  • Lovell Sisters to Europe this summer

    We just received an email from a show promoter in Norway announcing that The Lovell Sisters would be spending two weeks touring Norway and Belgium in September of 2008. There is nothing up yet on the sisters' official web site -

  • The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass

    The Holy Mass has been the inspiration for some of the most beautiful music ever written. Celebrated composers like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Puccini have written Masses that are still performed to this day. In the modern era Igor

  • Mountain Road and Big Country Bluegrass

    The recently established Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee, was formed by Karl and Gail Cooler to focus on unique sounds that originate in the mountains that we all love so well. They want to promote already established bluegrass and

  • Cherryholmes on WFDU

    This morning (2/29) on Lonesome Pine RFD, Cherryholmes will join Carol Beaugard from 11:00 a.m. until noon for some live music and discussion. The show is broadcast on WFDU at 89.1 FM in the New York City metro market, and

  • Punch – a review

    This review was written by John McGann, Associate Professor of Strings at the Berklee College Of Music in Boston, MA. A wise friend of mine once observed that "people spend a lot of energy looking for what something isn't, rather than

  • Bluegrass Oscar connection

    We received a note from our friend Richard Hawkins who runs the Bluegrass Ireland Blog, and posts at the European Bluegrass Blog, about a bluegrass connection to last weekend's Academy Awards presentation in Los Angeles. Richard pointed out that one

  • Tom T. on Josh Williams

    Josh Williams unveiled his new band last Saturday at The Station Inn in Nashville. It was their first public performance, and a good many of Nashville's bluegrass folks were on hand. Among them was veteran songwriter and bluegrass entrepreneur Tom T.