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Bluegrass festivals and fiddler's conventions are a feast for all the senses. The sights and sounds are obvious wherever live music is performed, as is the touch for anyone joining in the picking. But for real die-hard festival lovers, the

Away from the advertised barrooms and dives of the Official Bluegrass Ramble, a small hotel suite at Raleigh's City Center Marriott was packed to the brim. It's a good thing the local fire marshall was unaware of this gig, because

The California Bluegrass Association will add a new feature this year during their 38th Annual Father's Day Festival in Grass Valley, CA. It's a formal, four-day workshop for young grassers, ages 8-16. This is in addition to their Kids on Bluegrass program, which

This post is a contribution from Steve Dilling. He will be chronicling IIIrd Tyme Out's west coast tour for Bluegrass Today in October, as he has done in the past. October 26, 2010 We hit the road headed towards Bakersfield at

This Saturday (9/15), Radio Bluegrass International (RBI), an online radio service of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, will feature portions of their interviews with Jake Quesenberry, an important figure in west coast bluegrass, and a co-founder of the California Bluegrass

California photographer Tom Tworek has recently posted a gallery of images he shot at SuperGrass, the California Bluegrass Association's annual indoor winter festival, which ran February 1-4. These were taken from the stage, and are mostly close up, portrait shots of

From Ronnie Reno, via J.D. Rhynes, who posted on the California Bluegrass Association web site, comes word that Merle Haggard is working on a bluegrass project. That CBA news posting elicited a response from Elida Ickes on the CBA message board

Pacific Ocean Bluegrass is the brainchild of Scott Gates, a 14 year old mandolin player from California's High Desert region. He assembled a band composed entirely of other California teens, and they take their bluegrass seriously. They also take exposing