The Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced the hiring of two touring professionals in the bluegrass world to positions on their faculty. Dan Eubanks, bassist with Special Consensus, and Aynsley Porchak,
Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from "75 years of bluegrass," we thought that we would collect a few to share with you. Aynsley Porchak, from Woodstock, Ontario,
This past summer Aynsley Porchak, the super talented fiddler with Carolina Blue, came up with a great idea for a social media promotion. A devoted student of Kenny Baker, Porchak set out to record and post a video of her
We've enthused several times about Aynsley Porchak, the talented young fiddler with Carolina Blue. This recent graduate of the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University is an Ontario native, and a professional performer, who won both the US and
The dream for every college student - and every parent back home mailing the checks - is to find a job in their field right after graduation. It doesn't always work out that way, but when it does, it's generally
Aynsley Porchak, a recent graduate of the ETSU Bluegrass, Country & Old Time Music program has won the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Championship, just one year after winning the US competition last year. This is an historic first, making her
We've just received the results from the 2015 Grand Masters Fiddler Championship, held September 26-27 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. Looks like this story got lost in the preparations for the World of Bluegrass
