Nashville, TN (1.24.11) Michael Martin Murphey's album, Tall Grass & Cool Water, Cowboy Songs Volume 6 / Buckaroo Bluegrass 3 hit #1 this month on the Top 20 Western Music Albums Chart of the Western Music Association. Previously the album hit #4 on Billboard's Top 10 Bluegrass Album Chart.
Nashville, TN -- Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out continue to top the bluegrass radio charts with their hit new album Prime Tyme on Rural Rhythm Records. The album is #1 on the February 2012 Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine’s (BU) Top 15 Album chart along with their single, "If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again" also reaching #1 on the BU Top 30 Songs. Another popular song, "Pretty Little Girl From Galax" made its debut this month at #30 on the BU Top 30 Songs.
Berkeley, CA -- Singer/Songwriter duo Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally return to the Bay Area reinvigorated following a successful East Coast tour which culminated in a standing room only audience at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Selected as one of the top female vocalists of 2011, Nell Robinson teams up with award-winning guitarist Jim Nunally to headline SFBOT's "Duo Night" at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church for an evening of music "at the intersection of bluegrass, Americana, country and folk."
Nashville, TN -- The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is opening a spotlight exhibit, Something in Red, in support of the American Heart Association and Go Red For Women®. The exhibition, which will feature red ensembles from several country stars, including Sara Evans, Naomi Judd and Lorrie Morgan, will open on February 3, 2012 (National Wear Red Day), and run through April 2012.
Saturday, January 28th, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert of bluegrass music by the Tyler Willaims Band. Admission to the concert is $7 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. Tyler Williams grew up in Ohio and moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, to study bluegrass music. Ashley Davis is from Fayetteville, North Carolina. When the two of them met at the Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention in 2007 it wasn't long before they teamed up to form a band.
Rural Rhythm is proud to announce the new single, "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" by Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie. The song appears on the band's new album, The Touch of Time releasing January 31, 2012. This new tune is now available to radio via AirplayDirect.com and will also be included on Rural Rhythm's Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks radio sampler releasing next week./em
Marion, VA – Grand Ole Opry legend Bobby Osborne and his band the Rocky Top X-press will be in concert for a taping of Song of the Mountains on Saturday, February 4th at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia.
Westminster, MD -- Common Ground on the Hill is excited to offer winter-spring Jam Classes with instructor Christopher James during the "school year." Classes will be on the McDaniel College campus in Westminster, MD, Monday evenings February 6t thru March 26th, 2012. The total cost for eight group lessons is only $160. These group classes are offered as a way to stay in good musical form and to get ready for the myriad of Tradition Weeks offerings at Common Ground on the Hill in July. Christopher James is a wonderful teacher. Participants will have fun learning to play good music with other folks.
/CMA/ Nashville, TN -- By Sarah Skates QR ("Quick Response") codes, the latest new media marketing method, are popping up everywhere from movie posters to album covers. Easily recognizable as black-and-white squares with black boxes in three of their corners, these powerful codes represent a step forward from the traditional barcode.
Nashville, TN (January 17, 2012) - Hot Bluegrass duo, The Roys, recently taped a PBS Special celebrating the music of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Lee and Elaine Roy joined Randy Travis, Ronnie Milsap and numerous other stars for the event, which raised the rafters of the Loveless Barn outside of Nashville last week. Check out great behind-the-scenes footage and hear the music of Charles "Pa" Ingalls at MTSU Helps Revive Great Old American Music with "Pa's Fiddle" Project - YouTube.
Nashville, TN -- Rural Rhythm Records is very proud to announce another new single release, "Dirt Road Heartache" by Grammy® award winning bluegrass-gospel artist, Marty Raybon. This bluegrass barn burner was written by Melissa Pierce and Jerry Salley and is the first single from the upcoming album, Southern Roots & Branches releasing April 10, 2012 on Rural Rhythm Records. "Marty Raybon on his game and at his best," said Terry Herd (Bluegrass Today & Bluegrass Radio Network).
The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has a program for professionals within the bluegrass music industry to improve what they do. The purpose of the Leadership Bluegrass program is to pull together a cross section of people with exhibited or potential leadership qualities into a network of learning and communication. The results will foster a broad-based understanding of the total needs of the bluegrass community, which will help participants better prepare to determine the goals of the particular organization, company or group in which they choose to serve.
Columbus, NC January 24, 2012 - Pinecastle Records is pleased to announce that it has signed The Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show. Their upcoming album Take Me Back will be released summer 2012.img src=
Nashville, TN -- 2012 - 2005 CMA Entertainer of the Year and four-time Grammy Award winner Keith Urban, this year joined by an all-star lineup of some of country music's most loved groups including bluegrass super group Alison Krauss and Union Station, as they return to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday, April 10 for a concert to benefit the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. The We're All For The Hall benefit includes reserved seating tickets, which are priced at a family friendly $25 and $35 (does not include Ticketmaster surcharge), will go on sale January 27 at 10:00 a.m. A limited number of VIP ticket packages will also go on sale on January 27 at Ticketmaster.com .
/Mike Conner/ Just wanted to give you all a heads up about a HUGE show that seems to be growing by the hour. On Sunday, February 19, in Roanoke VA a bunch of Herschel & Joyce's friends in the bluegrass music world are coming together to help raise money to pay their quite large medical bills. As you may know, they were BOTH diagnosed with cancer on the same day, and have been undergoing treatments, both radiation and chemotherapy for the past several months so as you can imagine, the expenses are tremendous.
Nashville, TN (1.24.11) Michael Martin Murphey's album, Tall Grass & Cool Water, Cowboy Songs Volume 6 / Buckaroo Bluegrass 3 hit #1 this month on the Top 20 Western Music Albums Chart of the Western Music Association. Previously the album hit #4 on Billboard's Top 10 Bluegrass Album Chart.
Nashville, TN -- Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out continue to top the bluegrass radio charts with their hit new album Prime Tyme on Rural Rhythm Records. The album is #1 on the February 2012 Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine’s (BU) Top 15 Album chart along with their single, "If Your Heart Should Ever Roll This Way Again" also reaching #1 on the BU Top 30 Songs. Another popular song, "Pretty Little Girl From Galax" made its debut this month at #30 on the BU Top 30 Songs.
Berkeley, CA -- Singer/Songwriter duo Nell Robinson & Jim Nunally return to the Bay Area reinvigorated following a successful East Coast tour which culminated in a standing room only audience at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Selected as one of the top female vocalists of 2011, Nell Robinson teams up with award-winning guitarist Jim Nunally to headline SFBOT's "Duo Night" at St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church for an evening of music "at the intersection of bluegrass, Americana, country and folk."
Nashville, TN -- The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is opening a spotlight exhibit, Something in Red, in support of the American Heart Association and Go Red For Women®. The exhibition, which will feature red ensembles from several country stars, including Sara Evans, Naomi Judd and Lorrie Morgan, will open on February 3, 2012 (National Wear Red Day), and run through April 2012.
Saturday, January 28th, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, Virginia, will present a concert of bluegrass music by the Tyler Willaims Band. Admission to the concert is $7 for adults, $1 for children 6 to 11, under age 6 free. Tyler Williams grew up in Ohio and moved to Johnson City, Tennessee, to study bluegrass music. Ashley Davis is from Fayetteville, North Carolina. When the two of them met at the Galax Old Time Fiddlers Convention in 2007 it wasn't long before they teamed up to form a band.
Rural Rhythm is proud to announce the new single, "My Baby Thinks He's a Train" by Bill Emerson & Sweet Dixie. The song appears on the band's new album, The Touch of Time releasing January 31, 2012. This new tune is now available to radio via AirplayDirect.com and will also be included on Rural Rhythm's Fresh Cuts & Key Tracks radio sampler releasing next week./em
Marion, VA – Grand Ole Opry legend Bobby Osborne and his band the Rocky Top X-press will be in concert for a taping of Song of the Mountains on Saturday, February 4th at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia.
Westminster, MD -- Common Ground on the Hill is excited to offer winter-spring Jam Classes with instructor Christopher James during the "school year." Classes will be on the McDaniel College campus in Westminster, MD, Monday evenings February 6t thru March 26th, 2012. The total cost for eight group lessons is only $160. These group classes are offered as a way to stay in good musical form and to get ready for the myriad of Tradition Weeks offerings at Common Ground on the Hill in July. Christopher James is a wonderful teacher. Participants will have fun learning to play good music with other folks.
/CMA/ Nashville, TN -- By Sarah Skates
Nashville, TN (January 17, 2012) - Hot Bluegrass duo, The Roys, recently taped a PBS Special celebrating the music of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Lee and Elaine Roy joined Randy Travis, Ronnie Milsap and numerous other stars for the event, which raised the rafters of the Loveless Barn outside of Nashville last week. Check out great behind-the-scenes footage and hear the music of Charles "Pa" Ingalls at MTSU Helps Revive Great Old American Music with "Pa's Fiddle" Project - YouTube.
Nashville, TN -- Rural Rhythm Records is very proud to announce another new single release, "Dirt Road Heartache" by Grammy® award winning bluegrass-gospel artist, Marty Raybon. This bluegrass barn burner was written by Melissa Pierce and Jerry Salley and is the first single from the upcoming album, Southern Roots & Branches releasing April 10, 2012 on Rural Rhythm Records. "Marty Raybon on his game and at his best," said Terry Herd (Bluegrass Today & Bluegrass Radio Network).
The International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) has a program for professionals within the bluegrass music industry to improve what they do. The purpose of the Leadership Bluegrass program is to pull together a cross section of people with exhibited or potential leadership qualities into a network of learning and communication. The results will foster a broad-based understanding of the total needs of the bluegrass community, which will help participants better prepare to determine the goals of the particular organization, company or group in which they choose to serve.
Columbus, NC January 24, 2012 - Pinecastle Records is pleased to announce that it has signed The Karl Shiflett and Big Country Show. Their upcoming album Take Me Back will be released summer 2012.img src=
Nashville, TN -- 2012 - 2005 CMA Entertainer of the Year and four-time Grammy Award winner Keith Urban, this year joined by an all-star lineup of some of country music's most loved groups including bluegrass super group Alison Krauss and Union Station, as they return to Nashville's Bridgestone Arena on Tuesday, April 10 for a concert to benefit the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum. The We're All For The Hall benefit includes reserved seating tickets, which are priced at a family friendly $25 and $35 (does not include Ticketmaster surcharge), will go on sale January 27 at 10:00 a.m. A limited number of VIP ticket packages will also go on sale on January 27 at Ticketmaster.com .
/Mike Conner/ Just wanted to give you all a heads up about a HUGE show that seems to be growing by the hour. On Sunday, February 19, in Roanoke VA a bunch of Herschel & Joyce's friends in the bluegrass music world are coming together to help raise money to pay their quite large medical bills. As you may know, they were BOTH diagnosed with cancer on the same day, and have been undergoing treatments, both radiation and chemotherapy for the past several months so as you can imagine, the expenses are tremendous.