Violinist Matt Glaser, former chair of the String Department at the Berklee College of Music, has received the Artist Teacher Award from the prestigious American String Teachers Association. Especially notable is the fact that Glaser is the first non-classical instructor to
Kindred Records bluegrass Gospel group Kevin Carter and The Full Assurance Band welcomes new addition 16 year old fiddle player Kara Kiker. Kiker, who will assume the duties as fiddle player and harmony singer for the North Carolina based band, actually
Former Blue Grass Boy, Roger Smith of Milton, Indiana passed away Wednesday, May 22 at Reid Hospital in Richmond, Indiana. He was 86 years old. Born in Amelia, VA July 11, 1926, Roger grew up in North Carolina and started learning guitar, and later
With a title like Grandma's Rules for Drinking, the most recent release from Canadian folk group Annie Lou, offers intriguing possibilities for potential listeners. What they will find upon pressing play is an enjoyable collection of original music in the
Another successful infiltration for bluegrass music... We heard recently from Brandon Green, lecturer and band director in the ETSU Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music program, about a music camp in West Virginia where he teaches. It's called the Coda Mountain
For the past 7 years, the venerable Grand Masters Fiddler Championship has been held in Nashville during the IBMA World of Bluegrass week in late September. It had been hosted at the Opryland theme park from 1972 until it was left
We had posted previously about Mountain Heart fiddler and Nashville producer/session player Jim VanCleve, and his recent battle with dengue hemorrhagic fever. Friends and colleagues in Music City have set up a fund to assist Jim and his family with
Clinton Gregory would appear to be another country music artist taking a stab at bluegrass. The Virginia native had some chart success in the early '90s, particularly with the song If It Weren't For Country Music I'd Go Crazy. Gregory went
Good news from fiddle legend, Tex Logan. After having been hospitalized late last week in hypertensive crisis, Tex has been released into a rehab facility for what is expected to be a short stay for occupational and physical therapy before returning
Legendary bluegrass fiddler Tex Logan was hospitalized over the weekend, diagnosed with an emergency hypertensive crisis. He is 85 years of age, and being tended at Morristown Memorial Hospital in New Jersey. Tex, who worked in the 1950s with Bill Monroe and
