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Here's some more fallout from The Boxcars supernova... Justin Jenkins, who had been playing banjo with Blue Moon Rising, will not be continuing with the group when it reforms in 2010. Along with Keith Garret and Harold Nixon - who have

Béla Fleck & The Flecktones will start their Holiday Tour tonight (12/8) in Greenville, SC. They will be performing material from their 2008 Rounder CD, Jingle All The Way, chock full of Christmas music Flecktones style. The band includes Fleck on

Recording King has announced a new banjo model, the RK-Elite, to be debuted in January 2010. They describe this as their "most traditional Pre-war style banjo ever." The Elite features headstock and fingerboard inlays styled after the popular Flying Eagle pattern,

Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 - November 21, 2009 As already reported, banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He

Banjo CDs are coming out of the woodwork, it seems. Just in the past few weeks, we have received stellar releases from Dan Menzone, Jessie Baker and Chris Warner. Each is distinctive in its own way, and all should have

The Collector's Weekly has a lengthy interview with Lowell Levinger where they discuss his extensive collection of vintage acoustic instruments. Levinger is better known to his followers as Banana, the nom de guerre he adopted as a founding member of

Jayme Stone picked up another trophy last Saturday (11/21) at the Canadian Folk Music Awards in Ottawa to add to his two previous Juno Awards. Not bad for a banjo player. He won for World Group of the Year for Africa

Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 - November 21, 2009 As already reported, banjo stylist Allen Shelton passed away on 21 November while in the Centennial Medical Center, Nashville. He

Rounder Records has recently re-released a classic album from 1973, Fire On The Mountain by Highwoods String Band. This LP, and the band that recorded it, had a powerful impact on the early '70s old time scene, helping to transform

Last week, much of the music world was abuzz about the news that Gibson Guitar's solid body electric guitar plant, and their corporate headquarters in Nashville, were visited by agents from the US Fish & Wildlife Service last Tuesday (11/17).