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Anybody out there currently playing a Collings MT Mandolin? Just need some feedback. Good buy?

Collings Mandolins and Guitars of Austin, Texas, and the Mandolin Cafe will be giving away a Collings MT2 to some lucky individual in the near future. Starting October 1, 2005, visitors to the Mandolin Cafe web site will have an opportunity to register for a chance to win the mandolin in a drawing...

The Greencards give away Collings MT mandolin

The Greencards are a trio of young pickers on the borders of bluegrass music playing what might appropriately be termed Americana music, or as I read on one site "underground folk with a bluegrass influence." Two of the three, Warner and Young, are Australian while the third member, McLoughlin, is English....

For those that are curious…

I added some new photos to the header of the website yesterday. They rotate randomly every time the page is loaded. The photos that are now in the rotation were all taken here at my studio, either by myself or my good friend Dave Carney. Here's some info about the instruments that are now included in...

Fretboard Journal #3

We made mention of the launch of Fretboard Journal late last year, when the inaugural issue was set to be published. We have just received word that their third edition is being mailed now to subscribers, with a publication date of August 1. The 8/06 issue will feature an interview with Wade Mainer,...

Reader Feedback Requested (repost)

We've been blogging for a little over a year, and you've been reading for all that time. Now we'd like to know what you think. We've put up a Feedback Form and we're asking for you, the reader, to help us make The Bluegrass Blog even better by telling us what you like and dislike about it. Three comments...

Patriotism isn’t politics…

Friends: In response to the person from the Netherlands to "keep American politics out of the IBMA", it appears he is defining "politics" as ANY indication or mention of our nationality, then proceeds to launch a critique of current administration policies. The performing of traditional patriotic...

SPBGMA!!

Hey I've been surprised about the lack of mention about SPBGMA happening here in Nashville this weekend. For those who don't know, it's a good sized indoor festival featuring some of the best bluegrass in the more traditional vein. There's also plenty of jamming to be had, as one will notice...

Pacifically Bluegrass Show—Saturday Evening

Hi Bluegrassers....Just wanna welcome all of you to stop by and hear some great bluegrass music on the Bluegrass Mix. My Show, "Pacifically Bluegrass" is on Saturdays from 7-10pm est. We feature the finest in bluegrass and we offer the chance to hear some of the top bands in the Pacific West and the...

Reader Feedback

Thank you to everyone that has responded to our request for reader feedback. We've gotten some great responses and we'll share some of them with you below. Some of the ideas that you guys had were really good and we're looking at ways to incorporate them in the near future. We've decided to keep the...

Rhonda Vincent-Oprah

I just read where Rhonda Vincent was recently featured in Oprah Winfrey's magazine. WHAT?!? WHY?!? Oprah has nothing to do with Bluegrass. I heard Oprah say that when she read in the Bible that God is a jealous God, she couldn't support him, or words to that effect. She...

Singing with Danny Paisley

It was about 4:30 am on Thursday night after the awards show. I was getting tired and about to pack it in for the night but decided with a few friends to go cruising the hotel one last time for the night. I knew that Noam Pikelny, Danny Barnes, and Casey Driessen had been jamming on the 20th...

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