Bluegrass In College

Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME will award an honorary Doctor of Music degree to banjoist Béla Fleck on Saturday (5/28) during the school's 206th Commencement ceremonies. Béla will be on hand for tomorrow morning's graduation to accept his award, and will

We've posted many times about the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country music program at East Tennessee State University, where serious students of the music can now obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree - in playing banjos and fiddles! The program is

Well... it looks like I was wrong last week about there being no archived copy of the 2011 Mandolin Mashup video from the Berklee College of Music. Berklee mandolin instructor John McGann organizes this show each Spring as a showcase for

It's a bird... it's a plane... it's Mandolin Mashup 5! Tonight (May 4) at 8:15 p.m., Berklee College of Music mandolin instructor John McGann will host a concert at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston to celebrate the skill and artistry

Sierra Hull has a number of major milestones coming up this year. On March 8, Daybreak, her sophomore CD from Rounder Records is set to hit, and she is currently at work in Tennessee on her first music video in

Often played in garages and fields, bluegrass is also found in the austere halls of academia. From the folk revival of the 1960's to today, bluegrass has enjoyed a special relationship with the college concert circuit. We've mentioned The Professors of

If your Christmas was anything like mine, you spent several days with extended family over the weekend. One of my favorite parts of this exercise is catching up with younger members of the clan, and hearing about their plans for

From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, we will, each day, celebrate the life of Bill Monroe by sharing information about him and those people who are associated with his life and music career. This information

Bluegrass music continues to garner attention in the halls of academia. When I was a student in 1990's, there were only two options for pursuing bluegrass music at the college level, SPC and ETSU. I chose SPC and had a

Back in July, we posted about the job being advertised for a Bluegrass Lecturer at East Tennessee State University. The full time (9 month) position has been filled, with the post going to Brandon Green of Sophia, WV. Brandon has performed