Music

The International Bluegrass Music Museum is announcing a new program it's calling the Kentucky Bluegrass Allstars Lesson Program. The program offers instruction on fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and banjo. The lesson are held at the Bluegrass Museum in Owensboro, KY. Assistant Director

The Nothin' Fancy web site reports that their tour bus was rear-ended by a pickup truck as they were en route to Kentucky in the wee hours of this past Friday morning. No one was injured, but the bus suffered

We have posted previously about the scholarships offered each year by the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend, sponsored by Gibson, and now renamed to honor the memory of Charlie Derrington. The scholarships will allow four young bluegrass musicians (aged 13-24) to attend

Today being Bill Monroe's birthday it seems fitting to discuss a new CD from young Monroe-style mandolinist Chris Henry. The CD is titled Monroe Approved. Now that may seem like an overly ambiteous title for one so young, but it's

Popular bluegrass Gospel group, The Isaacs, have a new member. Kevin Haynie, brother of Nashville fiddle man, Aubrey Haynie, and a talented musician and experienced performer on stage and in the studio, has replaced John Bowman on banjo and guitar. Bowman

As we have mentioned many times this past few months, the new CD from Chris Thile, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, is officially released today. To help promote the CD, Sugar Hill Records is sponsoring a video contest,

It seems that we created a bit of confusion when we posted about the new Kenny & Amanda Smith Gospel CD, Tell Someone, a few weeks ago. We passed along the news that the CD was available from Kenny &

The band New River Line has just announced the release of a new CD, Chasing My Dreams, on Kindred Records. Chasing My Dreams is the sophomore recording from this Kentucky band and features 12 original songs all written by members

We just learned that Thomas Wyrot has joined Alecia Nugent's Band on banjo. Thomas had recently been performing as a guitarist with The Boohers, and before that with The Mark Newton Band, also on guitar. That makes the current lineup of

Charles Humphrey III, bass player with the Steep Canyon Rangers, has a new solo project, entirely made up of songs of his own composition. Entitled Songs From The Road, it is a self produced project which features his Rangers band