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Pinecastle Records has just released a solo project for Justin Carbone, current guitarist and vocalist with Chicago-based Special Consensus. Prior to joining Special Consensus in 2004, Justin was a member of 2nd Edition, a band he had founded in 1998

Mandolinist Butch Baldassari and dulcimer legend David Schnaufer have just released a new cd of duets showcasing traditional music of the Appalachian Mountains. Appalachian Mandolin and Dulcimer contains 14 songs that Baldassari and Schnaufer perform on a variety of mandolin

Rounder Records is bringing a number of instrumental classics out on CD this fall, starting with the release today of Bela Flecks' debut solo project from 1980, Crossing The Tracks. When this album first hit, the groans of anguish from banjo

Steve Huber, owner and builder of the popular Huber Banjo line, has stepped back from performing to focus his attention on banjo production, and just played his last show with The Kenny & Amanda Smith Band. Steve expressed a mix

Sam Bush recently went into the studio with Garth Brooks to record for what is thought to be a new upcoming project from Garth that will be available in Walmart Stores everywhere. Billboard reports that Garth recently inked an exclusive

Pinecastle Records and BlueRidge have joined forces, with Alan Bibey & Co. signing with the Florida-based label for their next recording, a Gospel project slated for an early 2006 release. In addition to Bibey on mandolin, BlueRidge is made up

This past May, more than forty bluegrass bands from all over Europe and the US descended on the tiny Dutch town of Voorthuizen to showcase at the 2005 European World Of Bluegrass (EWOB) Convention. Like its parent organization, the

eFolk Music is a download site that may not be as familiar as some of the big guns in the market, but with a focus on folk and acoustic music, it may be one that readers of Bluegrass Today will

Ronnie Bowman has been in the news a good bit of late, owing to the success of one of his songs, It"s Gettin" Better All The Time, a recent #1 hit for country artists Brooks & Dunn. That song, co-written

New River Line is proud to announce that bassest "Mike Parker" has joined N.R.L. as a full time member. Mike's talent is well recognized throughout the bluegrass music arena. Mike, along with his brother Jeff Parker (of the