Music

We heard recently from Greg Cahill, our friend and occasional Guest Contributor here on Bluegrass Today, who passed along some details on Special Consensus' activities so far in 2006. Greg tells us that they have recently started work on a

We have posted many times in the past six months about the prestigious Berklee College Of Music's recent decision to allow banjo and mandolin players to attend the school. More accurately, the new policy allows banjo/mandolin players - who have

Many bluegrass lovers recognize Mark Schatz as a prolific and highly sought after bass man, having been an integral part of The Tony Rice Unit, a member of The Bluegrass Album Band, and for having toured and recorded with B???la

Nothin' Fancy fiddler Chris Sexton's solo CD, Coffee At Midnight, which was released in October of 2005, is generating some great press, and selling well ahead of early expectations. Pinecastle Records reports that the CD is already ranked as the

The March issue of Silver Strings - a banjo "ezine" for new pickers getting started later in life - is now available online. The publication is meant to be roughly equal parts informational, instructional and motivational, with a new issue

We mentioned last week in The GrassCast episode #17 that Alecia Nugent's sophomore release for Rounder Records, A Little Girl...A Big Four-Lane was set to hit the street on February 28, 2006. Alecia discussed in her GrassCast interview (listen online)

The first class isn't expected to be enrolled until the fall of 2007, but planning, curriculum development and staff and faculty hiring are already underway for a new two year bluegrass music program to be offered at the Hazard Community

Butch Baldassari has announced that he is experimenting with realtime mandolin lessons over the internet via webcasting. He's planning both private and group lessons and will be hosting the sessions from his teaching facility in Nashville, TN using MSN-Messenger. To

Rebel Records announced on Friday (2/24) that their entire catalog is now available for digital download from Apple's iTunes Music Store. Every current, in-print release can be purchased via iTunes, as well as a few out of print titles. Rebel

Due from CMH Records on March 14, 2006 is a second volume of bluegrass tribute tracks from the songs of The Dixie Chicks. The new CD, entitled Pickin' On The Dixie Chicks Volume 2 - A Bluegrass Tribute, contains grassified