Last week during the IBMA Industry Awards luncheon, the IBMA Foundation announced two new educational initiatives for promising bluegrass students to help cover the costs of instruction and schooling. Both have been created in honor of iconic instrumental performers who
The Big Music Tents online instruction school has added a new course for students of the resophonic guitar. The seven videos in the course are meant to unlock the artistry of iconic dobro wizard Mike Auldridge, whose playing with The
The DC Bluegrass Union, which exists to promote bluegrass music in the US capitol region, has announced the winners of their 2022 Mike Auldridge Instrumental Contest. The competition was initiated following Mike's passing in 2012, and is held each year
Charlie Waller recording with The Country Gentlemen at Track Recorders - photo © Akira Otsuka Here is another gallery of photos Akira Otsuka took at Track Recorders in Silver Spring, MD during the late 1970s. These are of the Country Gentlemen tracking
The DC Bluegrass Union has announced the winners of their 2021 Mike Auldridge Instrumental Contest. DCBU holds this each year, both to honor the memory of reso-guitar master, Mike Auldridge, his many contributions to the capitol area bluegrass community, and
The DC Bluegrass Union has announced the winners in their 2020 Mike Auldridge Instrumental Contest, an annual event to toast the compositional efforts of bluegrass pickers. Held in honor of the late great Mike Auldridge, who added many new tunes
The folks with the DC Bluegrass Union have opened up entries in their 4th annual tune writing competition, named in honor of one of the greatest bluegrass instrumentalists in the history of Washington, DC. Submissions can be made now for the
A gaggle of familiar names are among the winners of the 2019 Mike Auldridge Instrumental Composition Contest, sponsored by the DC Bluegrass Union. The first place song, Chapel Hill Deer Stalk, comes from George Jackson, a Madison, TN, fiddler who tours
The DC Bluegrass Union has announced the winners in their inaugural running of the Mike Auldridge Instrumental Composition Contest. After several successful years running a bluegrass song competition honoring the late Hazel Dickens, the Union decided to run a tune contest
The acoustic music world often praises the talents of songwriters, with awards like Songwriter and Song of the Year. While this is certainly a good thing, the composing prowess of musicians who focus primarily on instrumental tunes is often overlooked.
