The White Sands Music Festival in Milton, FL will be operating a live webcam from the stage tonight (4/18) and all day Saturday (4/19) while the festival is underway.

Performers include Blue Moon Rising, Gary Waldrep, Nothin’ Fancy and hosts White Sands Panhandle Band among others.

Just visit the festival web site, and you’ll see the link to launch the streaming video.

HT: Mike Kelly, WDVX

There are clips of two tracks from the upcoming Blue Moon Rising CD posted on the band’s MySpace page. The songs are Where There’s A Road and The Hanging Tree.

The new project is due for release in January 2008 on Lonesome Day Records.

Where There’s A Road is being released as a single to bluegrass radio, and both of the tracks mentioned above were included on a Lonesome Day sampler distributed at the IBMA convention earlier this month.

UPDATE 3:30 p.m.: We just picked up a bit more info on this new project. The title will be… Blue Moon Rising.

Interestingly enough, the title comes not from the band name, but from one of the songs on the CD, Blue Moon Rising, written by Ronnie Bowman. When the guys first heard the song, they contacted Ronnie right away to see if they could cut it, and both he and they were delighted to find it as the title track of the new release.

From what I’ve been told, this new project sounds quite different from their previous CD, and there are some high expectations for it upon release next year.

We got a note from Blue Moon Rising yesterday with some news that will be of interest to their friends and fans.

The band is currently in the studio working on their second release for Lonesome Day records. It is being produced by Cody Kilby, flatpicking gunslinger with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, and should be released sometime this summer.

Their first Lonesome Day release, On The Rise, was released in 2005.

The band also asked us to pass along a bit of news about a special show they are doing this Friday (4/27).

Blue Moon Rising is holding a benefit concert this Friday night for their former Fan Club President, Linda Watkins. Due to the heath crisis of Linda and some of her family members all at one time, Blue Moon Rising will host this benefit, Friday, April 27th at Vonore Elementary School, Vonore, TN. It begins at 7:00 pm. Only $10 pp and kids 12 and under are admitted free. All proceeds go to Linda and her family.

Clyde Scott writes in to tell us about some upcoming live shows that will be available on BluegrassRadio.org this weekend.

We are very excited to announce that next weekend the fun in South Georgia continues. Saturday 3/17, we will present Michelle Nixon and Drive, Live in the Bluegrass Radio studios. on Sunday 3/18, we will present Blue Moon Rising. Both bands will do a complete set live and we will record each for playback later each day. This is a wonderful time for BluegrassRadio.org considering that every effort is being made to kill internet radio. We will not let the music stop.

You might want to go read these posts here, here, and here if you don’t understand what Clyde is referring to with his last two sentences. Make sure you read the comments on that first post as well.

If you have any trouble connecting to BluegrassRadio.org during the shows, be patient and continue trying. Clyde has mentioned that due to this recent ruling he will be limiting the number of connections to the stream.