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01/02/2018

Songwriters! The deadline for the Hazel Dickens Song Contest is coming up! Check out the DC Bluegrass Union page for more info.

Hazel Dickens Song Contest The Hazel Dickens Song Contest celebrates the life and muse of one of bluegrass music's most beloved songwriters. From hardscrabble beginnings in West Virginia coal country in 1935, Hazel moved to Baltimore, MD as a young woman to find factory work and quickly connected

10/17/2017

Songwriters! Enter the Hazel Dickens Song Contest through the DC Bluegrass Union today!

Hazel Dickens Song Contest The 2018 Hazel Dickens Song Contest will open for entries on October 16, 2017! The Hazel Dickens Song Contest celebrates the life and muse of one of bluegrass music's most beloved songwriters. From hardscrabble beginnings in West Virginia coal country in 1935, Hazel

10/12/2017

Check out this article about the Boulder Facial Hair Club's 5th Annual competition!

Next month, PVC pipe and cookie-cutter-wielding self-proclaimed beardos will descend on Longmont to show off their facial hair.

10/09/2017

Hey Colorado bluegrass friends! The Buck Buckner RockyGrass Academy scholarship deadline is November 3, 2017. You must be a member of CBMS to apply, but that's easy.

Apply for CBMS Rocky Grass Academy scholarship

08/14/2017

A very long, but important analysis of why bigger and louder is not better.

The long read: More and more singers are cancelling big shows and turning to surgery to fix their damaged vocal cords. But is the problem actually down to the way they sing?

03/01/2017

The deadline to apply for a showcase at IBMA's World of Bluegrass has been extended to tomorrow. Apply now!

DEADLINE EXTENDED: March 2, 2017, 10 AM CST Apply to showcase at the IBMA Bluegrass Ramble Official showcase performances at the IBMA annual Bluegrass Ramble during World of Bluegrass

02/24/2017

"Music is such an integral part of the cultural fabric here that people assume it's just always going to be here. Part of our challenge as music advocates is to say actually, it might not be."

As the face of Austin's music office prepares to depart, the city's problems and successes may offer a lesson for the world at large about globalization and technology.

09/21/2016

The 10 happiest songs according to one study. What do you think?

Obviously, Queen is on here.

09/16/2016

Apply for a Folk Alliance 2017 showcase!
Application deadline is October 3.

Become a part of the Folk Alliance Story. Apply to perform for hundreds of festivals, venue bookers, agents, managers, media, and music industry reps that attend the world's largest gathering of the folk music industry.

04/07/2016

Way cool, and he's from Colorado!

  Tim Linhart, who has been working as an ice artist for 30 years, has moved from Colorado, to Sweden, to build instruments and put on concerts he calls Ice Music.   Each of the instruments, which are all made from ice, are created at Tim’s home in his garden, and he calls them ICESTRUMENTS.

04/01/2016

03/07/2016

How to keep fans coming back for more!

[This article was written by guest contributor Dave Kusek, founder of the New Artist Model.] If you’re an indie musician who plays mostly local and regional gigs, you know that most audiences start getting fatigued if you play too many shows too frequently. And this trend gets amplified if you haven…