Bluegrass Music News--4.26.12

Live in NY: The Punch Brothers, bluegrass reinvented New York Daily News Instead, the structure and feel of their songs draws on elements as broad as modern jazz, avant-garde classical music and prog-rock. In the process, The Punch Brothers(who headline Town Hall Thursday) have not only turned a rural sound urban, ... See all stories on this topic » New York Daily News

Bluegrass Music Group Nu-Blu Partners with Duke Children's Hospital Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News Bluegrass Music band Nu-Blu has partnered to help raise awareness for Duke Children's Hospital. You can donate by visiting nu-blu.com and you will recieve a free download of "Family Quilt" for your donation of $1 or more. See all stories on this topic » Cybergrass Bluegrass Music News

Music Notes: Bluegrass meets classical with Nashville quartet; new Bob Marley ... Florida Times-Union By Heather Lovejoy In the music of the quartet Harpeth Rising, classical meets bluegrass. The young Nashville group brings together a guitar, banjo, cello and hand drums for a sound that's sophisticated, yet distinctly hillbilly. See all stories on this topic »

Steep Canyon Rangers ride to MerleFest Boone Mountain Times The quintet was named Emerging Artist of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association in 2007, and last year, its collaborative effort with comedian and banjo player Steve Martin earned the International Bluegrass Music Association's ... See all stories on this topic » Boone Mountain Times

Bluegrass music coming to town Aiken Standard By AMY BANTON - Staff writer - email:abanton@aikenstandard.com Banjos and mandolins will be heard from Newberry Street on Saturday during the first True Grass Blue Grass festival. The event was organized by Abernathy Music School located on Park Avenue ... See all stories on this topic »

Bluegrass Twang Comes to Kingman Island Music Festival The Hillishome It's West Virginia come to Washington, or at least that's what planners of the Kingman Island Bluegrass and Folk Festival are saying about this Saturday's free music festival, hosted on a 40-acre island on the Anacostia River. See all stories on this topic »

Album review: "The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent" Washington Post By Geoffrey Himes There's a reason "The Gospel Side of Dailey & Vincent" has topped Billboard's bluegrass charts for much of the spring. Almost every bluegrass act does at least one gospel album sooner or later, and the sober reverence of the projects ... See all stories on this topic »

At Bluegrass Youth Ballet – dance, music, fun are part of caring ... KyForward.com By Stephen Burnett Providing a multicultural experience in music and dance – with a lot of fun in the mix – is the goal of Bluegrass Youth Ballet, a nonprofit school whose students will take to the stage at Lexington Opera House May 2 to 4, ... See all stories on this topic »

Blogs

Wineka column: Mandolin player's music family holding benefit ... The Monday night oval takes in young and old bluegrass musicians and their fiddles, banjos, basses and other guitars and mandolins. Leatherman sings like a lark on this particular song, reminding Murph of the 1974 Old Time Fiddlers' ... Local News | The Salisbury Post

Web

Gypsy roots, desert blues, bluegrass top world music - Yahoo! News From Yahoo! News: LONDON (Reuters) - Sitar player Anouska Shankar, whose album "Traveller" takes a journey through the music of India and Spanish ... news.yahoo.com/gypsy-roots-desert-blues-bluegrass-top-worl...