Music

Pine Mountain Railroad has a new name to add to their eclectic list of sponsors. The boys are proud to announce that the headgear they wear on stage is now provided by The Fedora Store in Lindenhurst, IL. The benefits of

The folks at Skipping Discs, who brought us Saturday Night Hay Fever: Bluegrass Artists Perform Disco Hits, is now planning a second release of bluegrass covers, this time for The Grass Roots, who some of us recall as a pop

About six weeks ago, we posted about a new program being offered by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY. The program is the museum's Free Saturdays, where people interested in learning bluegrass music can obtain both free instruction

As an adjunct to our previous post... The Grascals being invited to open for Brooks & Dunn in NYC means that Danny Roberts is unable to serve on the mandolin faculty for this week's Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend as had previously been

The Grascals have been invited by country supergroup Brooks & Dunn to open their sold-out show at New York"s Irving Plaza on Thursday, November 10. This show is part of the Country Takes New York festivities leading up to the

Rounder Records has a new bluegrass compilation CD out today featuring cuts from previous Rounder releases, including selections from Alison Krauss & Union Station, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Rhonda Vincent, Blue Highway, Tony Rice, JD Crowe & The New South

Ben Winship is the current mandolinist with Kane's River and the owner/operator of The Henhouse, a recording studio in Victor, Idaho. Brian Wicklund is a celebrated fiddler, mandolinist and fiddle instructor in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota. Together, they

Thanks to Cindy Baucom for this piece of news: Barry Scott will be leaving Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver at the end of this year. Barry has been singing, and playing bass, with Doyle for nine years this Thanksgiving. While he has

Columbia Records has announced January 31, 2006 as the release date for The Hidden Land, the ninth CD from B???la Fleck & The Flecktones. Though the Flecktones have released two CDs on Columbia since their Grammy winning Outbound in 2000,

The Del McCoury Band will be doing a couple of record store shows this week in support of concerts in Philadelphia and New York City. On Tuesday, November 8, they will be at Tower Philly in Philadelphia at 1:oo p.m. (916-373-2415)