The IBMA Foundation has announced today the launch of the new Katy Daley Broadcast Media/Sound Engineering Scholarship. It will be awarded annually to individuals planning to study broadcasting or sound engineering at college or in a continuing education program with a bluegrass
What immediately follows when a group of retired friends get together? They start telling stories, of course. And if they have worked a full life in and around bluegrass, they will be bluegrass stories. If one of them is a recognized
The DC Bluegrass Union has announced that longtime WAMU broadcaster Katy Daley will be the recipient of their 2017 Monument Award. Katy will be presented with her award on Saturday during this weekend's DC Bluegrass Festival, held at the Sheraton
WAMU's Bluegrass Country has been in the news quite a bit of late, with programming and personnel changes taking effect in recent weeks. Here's one more change, unrelated to the large-scale ones announced in February. Jessica Stiles, whose Stiles of Bluegrass aired
The folks at WAMU's Bluegrass Country want to share a big 'Thanks You!" to the bluegrass lovers worldwide who have made donations during their pledge drive this week. As had been the case repeatedly, whenever the station makes an appeal
Pardon me, while I get a little personal. Bluegrass musicians and fans are known for digging deep when a member of the community needs a helping hand. Now, it’s time to help an institution that has done so much for bluegrass over
WAMU's Bluegrass Country has been a shining success story for public radio since they broke off from WAMU's main broadcast signal and began broadcasting bluegrass music 24/7 online in 2001. Several markets had seen secondary music channels develop for classical
In just over 24 hours over the weekend, the Seldom Scene played two shows that encapsulate everything that is good about bluegrass. The first, Friday afternoon, was in the tiny Black Box Theater at WAMU Radio in Washington, DC. The theater,
This bluegrass travelogue comes courtesy of Tom Feller, one half of Feller & Hill, whose spur-of-the-moment trip to our nation's capitol is described below. There is much to what Tom says that could be of benefit to other bands and
When the Del McCoury Band played live last week on The Katy Daley Show at WAMU's Bluegrass Country, the station's video crew captured the band performing one of the songs from their current Streets Of Baltimore album, Big Blue Raindrops. Video was
