• Monroe-style all star concert airs live

    Attention Monroe mando maniacs... If you missed the 2010 Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp faculty concert in Owensboro, KY in September, you can catch it live tonight (12/11)at 9:00 p.m. (EST) on WINN-FM, broadcasting at 88.3 FM from Evansville, IN and via live

  • Elvis Costello welcomes bluegrass

    Elvis Costello last recorded an acoustic album in 1986. On June 2, 2009 he is set to release another, Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. The album was produced by T Bone Burnett, recorded in Nashville in three days, and features a

  • Keishi Shikata remembered

    Last week we told you about the premature death of Keishi Shikata. Earlier today I received a touching tribute from renowned mandolin player Mike Compton, a friend of Shikata's for 30 years.…. "I knew Keishi since the late 1970's. He was always

  • Bluegrass Museum hosts Monroe-Style Mandolin Concert

    On the evening of September 8, 2007, downtown Owensboro Kentucky will be ringing with the sounds of bluegrass mandolin played in the traditional style of Bill Monroe. The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting their annual Monroe-style Mandolin Camp, and

  • Bluegrass Museum: 2007 Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp

    We failed to mention this when it was announced recently, but in case any readers don't know about it, here it is. The International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY is moving forward with plans for it's second Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp.

  • Mike Compton videos on YouTube

    Noted bluegrass mandolinist Mike Compton has two new videos up on YouTube. Both are simple productions, and feature Mike playing through a fiddle tune. The first has Mike playing a somewhat obscure Bill Monroe tune, Frog On A Lilly Pad. It

  • Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp

    The International Bluegrass Music Museum is hosting two Monroe-Style Mandolin Camps this month. The first camp runs September 8-10 and the second one September 15-17, 2006. The camps feature some great instruction from Mike Compton, Skip Gorman, David Long, Red

  • Mike Compton and David Long – Stomp

    Mike Compton and David Long have teamed up on the new CD STOMP, which is out today. Compton of course is the mandolin player in the Nashville Bluegrass Band and is widely acclaimed for his contributions to the soundtrack, and