Bluegrass In College

The Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University has announced their Artist in Residence appointments for the 2021-'22 academic year. Brittany Haas and Mike Compton have been named to this faculty position after an exhaustive

Earlier this week we wrote about the 13 students who graduated last week from East Tennessee State University with either a bachelor's degree or a minor concentration from the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Must Studies program. Today we have

Along with May flowers, we are in the time of college commencements, when proud parents and happy graduates spend hours in lengthy ceremonies to mark their official entrance into the world of adulthood. Many of the observances are a bit

Each semester, students in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University are required to engage in ensemble performances as part of their course work. Players and singers are grouped according to their level

East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, perhaps the first major state school to offer a degree in Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies, has announced a new concentration. Starting with the Fall 2021 semester, students within the Bluegrass, Old

The IBMA Foundation, the charitable and educational arm of the International Bluegrass Music Association, has been actively involved all week in the 2020 all virtual World of Bluegrass conference. Their activities will continue through the weekend, with what will be

The IBMA Foundation has announced today a new scholarship for IBMA members who are studying songwriting in college, or plan to be in the coming semesters. It is endowed by Rick Lang, a prolific bluegrass songwriter who has received a

The WVU Bluegrass Band has released a debut single from their upcoming album, expected in the fall. It's a song titled Rhopalocera, written and sung by Music Therapy student Emily Lehr. The Band is a student group within the Music Department

East Tennessee State University in Johnson City has offered a degree program in Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, and Country Music Studies for several years now. For maybe two decades before granting the degree, the program existed as a study focus

The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music Studies Program at East Tennessee State University is requesting applications for adjunct instructors for many of the instruments taught in the program. Like most universities, the school supplements its full-time faculty with adjuncts who