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13th Annual San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival. The eclectic blend of events booked for the 13th annual San Francisco Bluegrass and Old-Time Festival (SFBOT) will raise up a bluegrass ruckus, create some old-time fun music through performances, dances and workshops. The 10-day festival runs from 10th to the 19th February 2012 and comprises more [...]
Runway Records is a platform for your music to be heard and showcased for free, go to RunwayRecords.com. This was started because of CEO, James Buccelli of Runway Enterprises has a love and passion for music. I love all types of music. This is a very prestige platform to be seen on. You have nothing [...]
The Pa’s Fiddle Project Comes to PBS. There’s a new album to be released June 5th to commemorate the occasion. This Friday, 6th January, a concert based on the music written about in the Little House on the Prairie series of books by author Laura Ingalls Wilder, will be filmed at the Loveless Barn in [...]
Welcome to 2012. We wish all of our readers a very Happy New Year. We have enjoyed the past 12 months which have brought with it some great achievements and many challenges. The greatest challenge has been maintaining the website as a part-time hobby, while battling the many onslaughts of would be hackers and other [...]
Here’s an interesting story from the New York Times this morning. Warren Hellman, a Wall Street investor who was president of Lehman Brothers and whose passion for bluegrass inspired him to create a San Francisco music festival that draws hundreds of thousands of people a year, died on Sunday in San Francisco. He was 77. [...]
Howard Miller of Ausgrass fame has alerted us to the following opportunity. Department of State’s American Music Abroad Initiative Now Accepting Applications Using music as a means to engage audiences worldwide, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced today that the American Music Abroad program is now accepting applications for [...]
Rockin’ Acoustic Circus announces they’re opening a shop in Nashville with some new faces and they are now open for business. With hearts in traditional music and heads in the 21st century, this progressive acoustic group is pointing toward an exciting direction for music. Sharing their passion with impressive musical prowess and boundary pushing style, [...]
The Sunshine Coast is blessed to have some of the best musicians in Australia living here. Come along and hear local musicians getting together to make acoustic music and have a heap of fun doing it. Local Bluegrass band Grass Roots, will be leading the jam and concluding with a short performance. Onlookers are most [...]
Touring just became a lot easier for touring artists with airline Virgin Australia announcing a new initiative aimed at addressing the ongoing problems musicians face when traveling with musical equipment. After discussions led by national body The Australian Music Industry Network (AMIN), Virgin Australia have made an offer exclusively to the music industry that includes [...]
It’s 40 years since the release of the first Country Cooking album, 14 Bluegrass Instrumentals. This album from Rounder Records was Rounder 006 and it did well for the company in its early years, even becoming a Book of the Month Club selection, and reaching sales figures comparable to those of Hot Rize much later [...]
When Steve Martin was recently interviewed on ‘The Late Show’, David Letterman asked Martin if he played any other instruments besides the banjo? Somewhat puzzled, Martin asked Letterman if he would ask Yo-Yo Ma whether he played anything other than the cello? Yo-Yo Ma is no doubt one of the world’s leading classical cellists, however, [...]
The Australian Bluegrass Blog has commenced developing a new website to pay tribute to those many folk who helped create, shape and grow the bluegrass and old-time music scene that we all enjoy so much of here in Australia. Thanks to Strzelecki Stringbuster’s John Werner in Gippsland who came up with the idea around a [...]
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