• Last day at Gettysburg

    Here is the final gallery of images from Frank Baker, shot on Sunday, the final day of last weekend's 2012 Spring Gettysburg Bluegrass festival. You can see the other three galleries here. Big thanks to Frank not only for shooting for

  • Long Shot video from the Rangers

    Steep Canyon Rangers have released their first scripted music video, for the song Long Shot from their recent Nobody Knows You album. The new video is being hosted by CMT.com, and is included in the weekly voting at CMT's Pure 12-Pack

  • Doc Watson hospitalized

    We have learned that legendary guitarist and folk singer Doc Watson is hospitalized in Winston-Salem, NC. He is 89 years old. According to two close friends of Watson's, Doc fell on Monday and was taken to a regional hospital near his

  • Tom Adler talks Bean Blossom

    Tom Adler, author of Bean Blossom, last year's University of Illinois Press history of Bill Monroe's bluegrass festivals and the Brown County Jamboree, is featured in a new Q&A on the U of I web site. The subject of the interview

  • New IBMA staff members hired

    In the midst of the announcement about World of Bluegrass moving to Raleigh in 2013, we didn't get to mention two new hires announced by IBMA last week. Katherine Coe has been brought in as Administrative/Media Assistant. This position, revised for