• Chris Thile at Berklee

    This post is a contribution from David Hollender, Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Dave has been a member of the ensemble department for several years, and teaching upright bass, but now also teaches banjo for students

  • Bluegrass Music Videos on Ya’ll Wire

    If you like music videos you're probably disappointed by the lack of bluegrass music videos on the music channels coming in over cable and satellite. Enter Ya'll Wire. This is a fairly new site that is still under development and

  • The Cornell Daily Sun interviews Chris Thile

    Mandolin Cafe points us to an interesting interview with Chris Thile posted on the The Cornell Daily Sun website. The interview is a discussion with Chris about the struggles of a young musician, albeit with a great deal of experience,

  • Thile grabs BBC Folk Award

    Chris Thile was in London on Monday for the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, where he was nominated for Musician Of The Year. He won't be coming home empty-handed, as his name was called to accept the trophy. Here's how

  • Chris Thile in Acoustic magazine

    The February issue of the UK based magazine Acoustic, features an interview with mandolin master Chris Thile. Chris in nominated for a BBC Folk Award for Musician of the Year. The article is basically an interview where Chris shares his

  • Chris Thile music video on YouTube

    We posted last week that the music video for Chris Thile's Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground was available on CMT.com. We also mentioned that Mac users were out of luck when it came to accessing CMT's video player, and

  • Thile videos up on blue room

    AT&T's blue room has posted a set of online videos of Chris Thile and How To Grow A Band performing live in their studio. Three songs from his How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD are included - Watch

  • Chris Thile music video on CMT

    The Chris Thile music video we teased about in October has been released, and can be viewed on CMT.com. It's for the song Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground from his How To Grow A Woman From The Ground CD. The

  • Jim VanCleve Grammy nomination

    We posted earlier this week that Mountain Heart fiddler Jim VanCleve had recently celebrated the birth of his first child, Ryaan. When the nominations were announced yesterday morning for the 49th Grammy Awards, it turned out that Jim has something