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Resonator guitarist and vocalist Randy Kohrs has named several new members of his touring band, The Lites. Joining Randy and existing members Ashley Brown on fiddle, Andrew Crawford on guitar and Chris Williamson on bass are Mike Sumner on banjo, Jesse

As promised, here are a few more photos from the recent Mountain Heart visit to Switzerland. Jim Van Cleve passed along a note about the drink Jason Moore was holding in one of the earlier photos we posted. "I wanted to let

The 2008 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album goes to Jim Lauderdale for The Bluegrass Diaries. Jim introduced his producer, Randy Kohrs, as he was accepting the award, and recognized all the pickers on the album by name. He also referenced each

When you watch televised awards shows, you always hear about "awards presented earlier in the day." Well, that is when the niche music awards are presented, including ones of particular interest to readers of Bluegrass Today. The 2008 Grammy Award

Grasstowne will be appearing on a rare Saturday edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX FM in Knoxville, TN on February 9 at noon (EST). WDVX broadcasts at 89.9 FM, and listeners worldwide can catch the show via live streaming from

Mountain Heart is just finishing up a brief tour in Switzerland, and have sent along a few "What I did on my Alpine vacation" photos for all us to enjoy. Jim VanCleve has promised us another photo essay before they head

Recently we told you about the announcement of the Josh Williams Band. Josh has since let us know some more specifics of his plans for the 2008 festival season. For the next two weekends, Josh will be performing with the Alecia

Another CD we received recently came from Spanish banjoist Lluis Gómez. His new project is entitled Quartet, taken from the name of his group, and features 10 instrumental tracks, most of them Gomez compositions. He is joined by the members of

Randy Kohrs has been named the recipient of the Country/Bluegrass songwriting prize for 2008 from the International Acoustic Music Association in the 4th Annual IAMA Awards. The award is for the song Rockwell's Gold from his current CD, Old Photograph

There have been a couple new additions to The Kati Penn Band over the last couple of months. We missed them, but Kati wrote in to let us know about them. Back in December, James Kee joined the band on mandolin.