• And the Bluegrass Grammy for 2013 goes to…

    Congratulations to Steep Canyon Rangers, whose Nobody Knows You album was just announced as the winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for the Best Bluegrass Album. The Goat Rodeo Sessions (Yo Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan) was awarded

  • Vince Gill Bluegrass Band in Richmond

    Richmond,VA photographer, and banjo pick aficionado, Dean Hoffmeyer captured a few images from Vince Gill's 2012 bluegrass tour when they stopped at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens in Richmond last night. Joining Vince were Jim Mills on banjo, Stuart Duncan on

  • Goat Rodeo from House of Blues on PBS

    Regular readers may recall us posting back in January about acoustic supergroup Goat Rodeo Sessions doing a live concert simulcast to movie theaters across the US. The event was streamed from the House of Blues in Boston on January 31, and

  • The Goat Rodeo Rides Again!

    One of the most talked about recording projects of 2011 was the combining of acoustic greats Chris Thile, Stuart Duncan, Yo-Yo Ma, and Edgar Meyer for their Goat Rodeo Sessions. It’s not straight bluegrass, but it’s not straight anything else

  • Photos from Bill Monroe tribute on PHC

    Kathy Chiavola has posted a number of candid photos from this past Saturday's Bill Monroe tribute broadcast on A Prairie Home Companion. The show featured a number of stellar bluegrass artists, most of them former Blue Grass Boys. Kathy was on

  • Goat Rodeo does Colbert

    Last night's (11/1) edition of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central included a web-only performance from the Men of the Goat Rodeo: Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan. This quartet has recently released a new album of regional