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My very own hometown newspaper, The Roanoke Times, published a very nice feature on the venerable County Sales in their Sunday (8/29) edition. It was written by Tad Dickens, music reporter for the paper. As a young student of bluegrass banjo growing up in the Tidewater region of coastal Virginia, County Sales was my lifeline [.....]
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The International Bluegrass Music Museum is celebrating Bill Monroe’s birthday early. Actually, they are simply taking two years to celebrate his 100th birthday as part of a worldwide Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration. The IBMM has three exhibits planned as part of the celebration. The first exhibit opened during a Blue Grass Boys Reunion show earlier [.....]
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Barry Bales has chosen the Grand Prize winner in our Have Bass Will Travel video contest. It was selected from among the six finalists chosen last week by readers of The Bluegrass Blog. May we have the envelope please? [drum roll...] The prize goes to David Morris of Gaithersburg, MD for his entry that contemplated [.....]
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The next instructional CD release from Dark Shadow Recording will be Bluegrass – The Comprehensive Fiddler, featuring Megan Lynch. It will include five familiar bluegrass songs (Little Cabin Home On The Hill, Mr. Engineer, Blue Ridge Cabin Home, Little Georgia Rose, How Mountain Girls Can Love) as play-along tracks, with Megan breaking down the details [.....]
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Rounder Records has announced the October 12 release of The Rounder Records Story, a 4 CD box set that covers the 4 decades of alternative, folk, bluegrass, blues and rock music the pioneering label has released in its 40 year history. The 4 discs are collated by decade, and the set includes a 100 page [.....]
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The first annual Artist Management Conference has been scheduled for October 14-15, 2010 in New York City (venue TBA). The conference is billed as an opportunity for artist managers and self-managed artists to meet for networking, education, strategizing and business opportunities. Registration is available both for in-person attendance on site, and online with a Virtual [.....]
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Lorraine Jordan has a new bass player in her band, Carolina Road. Charley Oakley, from Roxboro, NC will hold down the rhythm section, do a bit of buck dancing in the show, and keep everybody in line out on the road. In addition to working with a long string of bluegrass Gospel bands, Charley has [.....]
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We got some very good news today about James King, who had been hospitalized last week for treatment after a number of blood clots were found in his lungs and his legs. Julie King sent along this update just a few minutes ago, which will be welcome news to James’ many fans and friends in [.....]
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Larkin Poe, the sister duo formed when The Lovell Sisters disbanded earlier this year, have just released Summer, their debut EP project, along with a music video for the song Long Hard Fall. Their music is more pop than bluegrass, a direction that The Lovell Sisters had been taking this past two years while they [.....]
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Here is a gallery of photos I have been meaning to get up for three weeks now! Thanks so much to Lilly Pavlak who took these at the La Roche Bluegrass Festival in France which ran from July 28-August 1. Lily was especially proud to note that the top three bands in the European Band [.....]
If you missed the performance of singer/songwriter Rebecca Loebe (that’s pronounced Low-Bee) on Capital Americana a few weeks back you can now hear it any time you like.
Listen to Rebecca’s performance
