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Here's another bluegrass anniversary worth noting. It was almost exactly one year ago that we told you about a new band forming with prominent members drawn from several popular touring acts. The announcement came on December 1, 2006 of the imminent debut

A vintage Yamaha flat top guitar once owned by Charlie Waller is being offered on eBay to raise money for needy families this holiday season. Its current owner, Christopher Ryan Jones of Bluegrass Mafia, has donated the guitar to benefit Operation

Rounder Records has created a mini-documentary and interview with Rhonda Vincent to help build interest in her upcoming January release, Good Thing Going. Rhonda speaks about how she came to write several of the songs on the new CD, and how

This report comes from Casey Henry, a banjo player and writer living in Nashville, TN. She performed the past few years with her brother, Chris, in The Two Stringers, now disbanded. Bluegrass got the boot last night when Cliff Wagner and

It's not just Randy Kohrs who is shocking the pundits with the power of grassroots bluegrass fans in effecting online balloting. The Chapmans also find themselves as the sole bluegrass artists in a head-to-head competition with a bevy of pop and

This evening, November 23, will find The Infamous Stringdusters on the stage of The Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, making their debut performance on the venerable radio broadcast. They will be featured in the 8:30 to 9:00 p.m. segment (EST), which

It seems that we are still playing catch-up, trying to make mention of the great many new CDs that have come our way this fall. Once again, I'll try to get to several more over this long holiday weekend. Time After

Keeping up with Randy Kohrs video and single for Who's Goin' With Me... His video is still in the running at the CMT Pure Top 20 Countdown, rated #4 this week against some steep mainstream country competition. The rankings are based

Students at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC have been learning a lot about bluegrass recently. In the fall of 2006 the university began offering a concentration in Appalachian Music: Roots and Influences from the College of Arts and Sciences for

NewFound Road is about to start working on a new CD. The first studio date is December 8, suggesting that a release in mid-to-late 2008 is reasonable. Mountain Heart's Jim Van Cleve will co-produce the new project with the band, and