• Pickin’ at the Apple store

    Here's ones for all the Apple fans out there. (Haters, keep it to yourself.) Our friends at Whynoceros, who developed the Barnyard Bluegrass app for iOS devices, showed up at the Apple store in Portland to entertain the folks in line to

  • More Bearfoot in the schools

    The International Bluegrass Music Museum sent along another set of photos from Bearfoot's two week residency at the museum in Owensboro, KY. The guys and gals were in town to give presentations to school kids in Western Kentucky, something for which

  • Barnyard Bluegrass on your iPhone

    Got a small child in the house who likes to play with your iPad? The folks at Whynoceros Apps have developed a fun game for youngsters called Barnyard Bluegrass. Like most such apps, it seeks to both educate and entertain, and

  • Bearfoot in residence at IBMM

    Bearfoot spent last week in Owensboro, KY, where they will be this week as well, serving as Artists In Residence with the International Bluegrass Music Museum. During this time they will perform at 22 nearby elementary schools, giving the students

  • And A Little Child Shall Lead Them?

    My wife and I recently held a bluegrass festival, Gabefest, and among the bands we booked was a newer group of talented young musicians, Monroeville. One of the reasons we chose them was the fact that we knew they had performed

  • Bearfoot in the schools

    Bearfoot has just released an online video, highlighting a recent visit the band made to both an elementary and high school in Gillette, Wyoming this past February. The group was created in Alaska some years ago as a result of just

  • Alisa Inaba makes her debut

    Who doesn't love a cute kid singing a Bill Monroe song? Proud papa Kazuhiro Inaba sent along photos and a video of his 10 year old daughter, Alisa, singing Blue Moon Of Kentucky at the Bluegrass Fuyu Fest in Osaka on