Four years ago, just before her 40th birthday, Kelly’s voice gave out near the end of a weekly gig with her band, Acoustic Endeavors. She’d being singing for years and had sore throats and other vocal issues over the years, so
Acoustic Endeavors
20 Years… 20 Tunes – part 2
Acoustic Endeavors has released the second of four 5-song digital albums, celebrating the band's 20 years of recording and performing original bluegrass music. In what is becoming more common each year, they have chosen to pop out four of these
Acoustic Endeavors: 20 for 20
Roanoke, VA-based Acoustic Endeavors is celebrating 20 years recording and performing original music with a new album - and a unique way of releasing the tracks. The project is titled 20 years... 20 tunes, but instead of dropping a CD with
Carlton Haney – a bluegrass life
Richard Thomspon has prepared this brief biography of Carlton Haney. Its publication has been delayed awaiting some of the personal tributes that are included, and a spot of poor health on Richard's part. Carlton L Haney, one of the most colorful,
CDBaby Joins MP3 Revolution
CDBaby has long been the entry point for independent artists longing for digital distribution. Creating a CDBaby account would give you the channel for getting your music in iTunes and other online digital download services. Now CDBaby has launched a new
Blog Author in Top 50 list
WNCW 88.7 FM in NC has posted the results of their online voting for the best releases of 2006. The results take the form of Top 100 Lists starting with a comprehensive list and then broken out into genre specific
Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend faculty concert 11/11
Each year, the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend holds a faculty concert on the Saturday night of their three day instructional event. It is the only part of the weekend which is open to the general public (not registered to attend the
Your Blog authors visit XM
When we first got to Nashville on Monday afternoon, Brance and I were able to stop by the studios of XM Satellite Radio's Bluegrass Junction at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, and meet with host Kyle Cantrell.
Blog author on WorldwideBluegrass this afternoon
John Lawless, one of your authors here at Bluegrass Today, will be a guest on streaming Internet radio station WorldWideBluegrass.com today (7/14) at 4:30 p.m. (EDT). John will join Gracie Muldoon during her Muldoon In The Afternoon program, along with
Larry Keel, Acoustic Endeavors on iTunes
As Apple's iTunes Music Store has grabbed up a larger segment of the worldwide music purchasing pie, many smaller independent labels and artists have been concerned that their releases would be lost amidst the slick promotion for mainstream pop projects