Bluegrass Radio

Testimony from this morning's full committee hearing in the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee (Assessing the Impact of the Copyright Royalty Board Decision to Increase Royalty Rates on Recording Artists and Webcasters) is posted on YouTube. Opening statements are

Bluegrass fiddler and legendary Ohio Valley radio personality Paul "Moon" Mullins will accept a well-deserved honor at this Saturday's Cityfolk Festival in Dayton, OH. On June 30, he will receive the 2007 Ohio Heritage Fellowship Award for Performing Arts, given

Tomorrow, June 28, The Small Business Committee of the US House of Representatives will conduct a full committee hearing on the hotly contested new royalty rates proposed by the Copyright Royalty Board. The topic of the hearing is officially

Bluegrass fans who turn to BluegrassCountry.org for their 24/7 bluegrass fix will be in for a shocker on Tuesday. The folks at BluegrassCountry, like their sister station WAMU.org, will participate in the Day Of Silence campaign on June 26 to

A lot has been said recently about the increase in performance royalty rates for internet radio webcasters, and during the discussions it was mentioned that traditional broadcast radio is not currently subject to any sort of artist performance royalty. A

Tom and Lucy Warlick have written a book on the WBT Briarhoppers, an "accidental" hillbilly band formed to perform on Charlotte, NC radio station WBT in 1934. The group was formed when an advertiser, Consolidated Drug Trade Company of Chicago,

Andrea Bradstreet, who hosts a weekly bluegrass radio program on KRFC in Fort Collins, CO, asked us to pass the word about Live@Lunch. It's a live, in-studio music show which runs from noon to 1:00 p.m. (Mountain) weekdays, and on

Foothills Radio Group, in Lenoir, NC, has announced the creation of a new all-bluegrass radio station. The station is WKGX and can be found at 1080 on the AM dial. Previously an all sports format, the station will now be

Since we've been talking about SoundExchange so much lately I thought I'd call this to your attention. SoundExchange, for those that don't know, is the entity that collects performance royalty money on every song played via a digital transmission such

In the ongoing debate over the new CRB royalty rates, small webcasters were granted a reprieve yesterday when SoundExchange announced an offer for small webcasters. This offer extends the previous agreement, Small Webcaster Settlement Act, under which the small webcasters