| Music - Bluegrass
Breakdown

 
Tune in every Sunday from 6:00-8:00 p.m., when hosts Mark Mathewson
and Jennifer Ramm bring you the best in bluegrass and related music.
With roots in Celtic, country, folk and blues, bluegrass has a rich
heritage that continues to grow thanks to a new generation of gifted
musicians. From masters like Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs to
contemporary artists like Alison Krauss and Ricky Skaggs, from rock-ribbed
traditional to boldly progressive, you'll hear it all on Bluegrass
Breakdown.
And don't forget the playlists
for Bluegrass Breakdown!
Contact Mark & Jennifer
WUIS Bluegrass Fiddlers Concert Contest
New Date - Saturday, May 3, 2008
Cost: free
This will be our first Young Musicians Concert Contest geared toward bluegrass musicians in grade school and high school - a fiddle contest held at New Salem State Park. (learn more) |
Where to buy bluegrass recordings for your musical library
County Sales - for decades
one of the best sources of bluegrass and old-time music.
Elderly Recordings
- a great place to find bluegrass, Celtic, blues, Cajun, singer-songwriters,
and more.
Amazon.Com and CD
Now, which have huge selections of every kind of music, including
bluegrass.
Record Labels
Track the latest bluegrass releases at the Sugar
Hill, Rounder Records,
Rebel Records, Pinecastle
Records, Ceili Records,
Doobie Shea Records, and
Skaggs Family
Records web sites.
Learning more about bluegrass: books, videos and magazines
To learn more about bluegrass music, we recommend...
- Bluegrass: A History by Neil Rosenberg (University of Illinois
Press, 1985)
- Bluegrass: An Informal Guide by Richard Smith (Chicago Review
Press, 1995)
- Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of
Bluegrass by Richard D. Smith (Little Brown, 2000)
- and Bluegrass Breakdown by Robert Cantwell (University of Illinois
Press, 1984)
As well as the fine documentary High Lonesome (available on video
from County Sales, among other sources).
You can keep up to date on the bluegrass scene with subscriptions
to Bluegrass Unlimited
and Bluegrass Now magazines.
Internet resources
Web sites ibluegrass and
Cybergrass contain a wealth
of bluegrass information.
For a lively, if sometimes rancorous, e-mail discussion group devoted
to bluegrass, check out Bgrass-L.
The International Bluegrass Music
Association and the Society
for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America are on the
web as well.
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