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Bluegrass gives you the best of everything—dance, rhythm, fellowship, in a festival setting.
Roger Banister
An accomplished Italian acoustic guitarist who performs his traditional American guitar playing all over the world. Schedule him for your next acoustic music festival, workshop, or concert by contacting his national managing agent. Note his list of credentials, discography, and published works.
Online resource where you can locate festivals and bluegrass music products and information. Also find out about record companies, manufacturers of bluegrass equipment, and instrument supply companies.
Enormous database of bluegrass musicians and record labels. Search the database for your favorite musician, band, or album. You can also search by the label or the year. A master catalog is available for download.
Offers information about the Central Texas Bluegrass Association, a nonprofit corporation. Includes a calendar of events, as well as workshop and membership information.
Online music magazine dedicated to bluegrass music. Everything bluegrass can be found here: news, album reviews, festivals and events, artist profiles, associations, books, and publications—even bluegrass definitions. If you don’t see what you’re looking for in the table of contents, search the database.
Contains a brief biography, a discography, a concert schedule, and a performance by Doc Watson accompanied by his son Merle. Includes links to pages on other bluegrass greats, such as Bill Monroe.
Bluegrass band out of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Meet the band, plan around their upcoming performances, and find out the latest news from festivals and events they’ve attended.
Full service music store located in Lawrence, Kansas. Check their full range of guitars, banjos, violins, fiddles, amps, and percussion instruments. They also post specials online. To order, call the toll-free number. They also have a selection of used instruments and equipment for sale and house a repair shop.
Music club out of Kansas City, Missouri. Meets once a month and provides a concert (free to the public) of three or four bluegrass and old-time music bands. You can even listen to a radio segment from the Bluegrass Radio Network.
This country and bluegrass festival in Southern California lasts three days and also includes horseback riding, clogging, catfishing, boating, and crafts. Make a reservation, check the maps on how to get there, and check out the activities available.
Nonprofit organization devoted to promoting and preserving acoustic music, including bluegrass, folk, and old-time music. The IAMA sponsors various seminars, workshops, and concerts; check out the Event Calendar. There’s also a monthly newsletter for members; become one by filling out the online form and sending in your membership fee.
The IBMA is an international trade organization dedicated to the promotion of bluegrass music. Get membership information, find out who your regional representatives are, look at current industry press releases, or visit the International Bluegrass Music Museum.
Enables readers to exchange and sell instruments and discuss banjo playing, fiddling, songs and lyrics, reviews, and anything else regarding American old-time music. Lets you post messages to the Anything Else? page.
An acoustic country concert series at The Carolina Theater in Durham, North Carolina. List of upcoming concerts, theater seating floorplan, and how to order tickets are all available at this site. You can also check out previous shows.
Formed by the International Bluegrass Music Association to encourage the development of bluegrass music in the Pacific Rim countries. Meet the representatives from Australia, New Zealand, China, Indonesia, Japan, and Hawaii; and read their objectives, which includes encouraging local radio play of bluegrass music.
Memorial Web site to Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass Music. The Rosine Association is raising funds to build a monument in his honor at his birthplace, Rosine, Kentucky. View a graphic of the monument and find out how you can show your support by donating money and affixing your personal message and name to the monument for posterity.
Blue Planet Music, organizers of the legendary Telluride Bluegrass Festival, is now online. Contains festival schedule and information, as well as information about Blue Planet recordings and their mail-order operation.