Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will perform one of the new cuts from their latest album 'Speed of Life' (NGDB Records/Sugar Hill) as well as their classic "Mr. Bojangles" on the CBS Early Show on Saturday, November 21. Later that night,

Hiltons, VA -- From the pastoral hills, hollers, shopping malls, and interstate highways of Goodlettsville, Tennessee; home of Bill Monroe, Bashful Brother Oswald, Stringbean, Grandpa Jones, Keith Whitely, and some living country music performers, comes the most entertaining blast from

Nashville, TN -- In memory of Louise Scruggs, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum will present an in-depth interview honoring visionary music industry executive Mary Martin on Tuesday, November 17, at 6 p. m. in the Ford Theater.

Over 60 years after Folkways Records released Woody Guthrie's first children's/family music album in 1947, his granddaughter Sarah Lee Guthrie is ensuring the family's commitment to children's music and its longstanding collaboration with Smithsonian Folkways, the home of Folkways Records.

PRNewswire/ Stanville, KY -- Attorney Eric C. Conn has launched an ad campaign in hopes of grabbing the attention of President Obama. Today, Conn announced his new video with legendary bluegrass singer Ralph Stanley and model actress Amber Ettinger, more

Nashville, TN -- Reigning IBMA Entertainers of the Year Dailey & Vincent remain at the top of the Bluegrass Unlimited National Bluegrass Survey album and song charts for November. This makes the second consecutive month that their sophomore Rounder Records

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out will take part in a special performance on Saturday, November 7th at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, VA. The performance will be taped before a live audience and broadcast next year on PBS stations

Radio and TV personality, concert promoter Elizabeth "Lady" Mull of Knoxville, Tenn., originally from Lenior City, attended her induction into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame at Dollywood recently in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. "Best known as "Mizz Mull" or

Pete "Dr. Banjo" Wernick will offer several scholarships for his 2010 Winter Banjo Camps to deserving banjo pickers who would otherwise have difficulty affording it, thanks to some generous folks including Stelling Banjo and the Colorado Bluegrass Music Society (CBMS).

Wilkesboro, NC -- MerleFest 2010, presented by Lowe's, is proud once again to host the Chris Austin Songwriting Contest. Now in its 18th year, the contest is an extraordinary opportunity for aspiring writers to have their original songs heard and

For the first time in more than 50 years, legendary mandolin player Bobby Osborne and banjo player J.D. Crowe join talents to present a concert of distinctive bluegrass music. "The Brooks Center audience is in for a real treat when

Are harmonicas as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Norman Rockwell? Unknown Norman Rockwell paintings don't surface very often, so when Pennsylvania auctioneers Pook & Pook Inc. offered a previously unknown work by Rockwell as part of their

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