Raymond McLain

This article is a contribution from Raymond W. McLain, Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University. When Sarah Wood stepped up to the microphone in Qingdao, China and sang, In A Far Away Place, the resounding

I know that there will always be folks arguing that we need more straight traditional bluegrass, or that they would like to hear and open up the music to the various folks who play bluegrass, and also fuse and blend

On Friday, a bluegrass band from the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University will depart for a tour of the People's Republic of China. This is the third time that students from the program have been invited

Musicians in the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University performed for the school's President's Concert on the Lawn last week. Their fifty minute set was recorded, and thanks to the folks at MoreheadMusic.com, here it is for you to

We heard yesterday from Red Line Studios, the folks creating the upcoming Dave Evans documentary film, Last of the Breed: The Dave Evans Story. Work on the film is well underway, which will cover Dave's rough and tumble life from childhood up

The quick review was contributed by Ken G. Brown, who we hope will become one of our new correspondents when we launch our expanded new site later this year. Fiddle and harmonica might not seem like enough instruments to create a

From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, we will, each day, celebrate the life of Bill Monroe by sharing information about him and those people who are associated with his life and music career. This information

Peter Rowan and his bluegrass band - which we profiled during IBMA week - was a recent guest on the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. They performed selections from the new album, Legacy, from the Peter Rowan Bluegrass Band. Rowan, celebrated

The Bristol Herald Courier, which covers Bristol Tennessee and Virginia, plus the nearby cities of Johnson City and Jonesborough, TN, had a piece last Monday about the changing of the guard at East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass, Old Time &

Don Rigsby will be starting off the new year with a new focus in his career. This award-winning singer and mandolinist had spent the past 8 years as the Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University