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Here's a great new CD we had neglected to mention when it was released last month. It's the debut release from Hunter Berry, the dynamic young fiddler with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, with the appropriate title, Wow Baby. The recording

The current issue of Teen Strings magazine has a story titled How To Train For A Fiddle Contest. It's written by John Boulware, who at age 19 is the 2006 Tennessee fiddle champ. Teen Strings is a quarterly print magazine from

AcuTab Publications has released their first fiddle instructional DVD, for JD Crowe & The New South fiddler, and celebrated session player, Ron Stewart. Entitled Playing Fiddle In The Bluegrass Style, it features Ron demonstrating ten songs and tunes he has

We just heard the sad news that fiddler Carl Nelson passed away this morning. Carl worked with Bill Harrell & The Virginians for a number of years in addition to playing fiddle on numerous bluegrass recording projects, and performing with

The list of winners in the 2006 Grand Masters Fiddle Championship has been posted on the Grand Masters web site. The competition was held during the IBMA Fan Fest in the Renaissance Hotel ballroom, adjacent to the Nashville Convention Center

We also heard last week from Fred Carpenter, who runs The Violin Shop in Nashville. He shared some of his plans for IBMA week later this month, which will include their participation during the Grand Masters Fiddle Contest (9/28-29), and

Alan Dalton wrote in recently to let us know about a DVD release of the last recorded performance of fiddle legend, Vassar Clements. The recording took place in Athens, Georgia on December 18, 2004. The performance featured Clement's Holiday Band;

Michael Cleveland has been added to the Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend faculty for 2006, taking the place of Kenny Baker, who has found that he will be unable to teach this year. The RBW staff will make refunds available to any students

Greg Spatz, fiddler with John Reischman and The Jaybirds, is more than just a talented musician. He is also a published author with two novels and a collection of stories to his credit, who serves as a professor of Creative

The 8th annual Rocky Mountain Fiddle Camp will offer two weeks of fiddle and traditional music instruction in a variety of styles between August 6-20, 2006. The camp is broken into two, seven day sessions (6-13, 13-20) with instruction in