The Grascals

The Gospel Music Association announced yesterday their nominees for this year's Dove Awards. The awards do include two bluegrass categories for Song of the Year and Album of Year. Here are this year's bluegrass nominees. BLUEGRASS RECORDED SONG OF THE YEAR (Song,

We found a number of feature pieces on bluegrass/acoustic artists in various print publications this past few days. Friday's Knoxville News Sentinel ran an interview with Abby Washburn of Uncle Earl. She talked about their upcoming CD, Waterloo, Tennessee, and having

If you like music videos you're probably disappointed by the lack of bluegrass music videos on the music channels coming in over cable and satellite. Enter Ya'll Wire. This is a fairly new site that is still under development and

California photographer Tom Tworek has recently posted a gallery of images he shot at SuperGrass, the California Bluegrass Association's annual indoor winter festival, which ran February 1-4. These were taken from the stage, and are mostly close up, portrait shots of

This is just a reminder that the Grascals will be appearing on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight. The guys will be performing with country star Dierks Bentley. The show is on CBS and will air tonight at 12:35

Be on the lookout for The Grascals on The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday, February 12. They'll be on with Dierks Bentley, with whom they recorded for his new CD. Bentley is a long-time friend of The Grascals'

There are a number of other bluegrass artists with Grammy nominations announced yesterday. Rhonda Vincent and Bobby Osborne are nominated in the Best Country Collaboration With Vocals category for Midnight Angel, from Rhonda's All American Bluegrass Girl CD. The Del McCoury Band

The Grascals have just announced that Aaron McDaris will be their new banjo player. He has been working this past six years with Larry Stephenson, and has a solo project, First Time Around, on Pinecastle Records. He takes the spot of

The Grascals will be a featured performer on The Grand Ole Opry tonight, appearing in the 9:00-9:30 p.m. and 11:30-midnight slots. It may be your last chance to hear them perform with original banjo man Dave Talbot, who recently informed

Hazel Smith is one of the more colorful characters you'll find on TV. Her cooking segments on such popular programs as Emeril Live and The Ellen DeGeneres Show have made her into a minor celebrity. Her cookbook, Hot Dish: Hazel's