The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Here’s a special opportunity for all you Rice heads… Tony Rice is offering his personal, 2007 Santa Cruz Tony Rice model guitar for sale. This is a custom instrument, built specifically to Tony’s specs, and which he used on the road through much of 2007 and 2008. The guitar is being sold through Steve Swan Guitars, which [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Tony Rice has posted a poignant and heartfelt message to military veterans on his web site. What a shame that we didn’t catch it in time for Veteran’s Day last week. It is entitled Letter Of thanks To Veterans Everywhere from Tony Rice, and begins with a simple statement: I want to take a moment and try [...]
DealBook (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Britain’s Cable & Wireless increased its full-year earnings guidance after posting strong first half results on Monday but said it had been forced to postpone its demerger plans due to turmoil in the markets. Britain’s second biggest corporate telecoms provider after BT Group said it had postponed a final decision on “value realization” until a period [...]
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Cable & Wireless today confirmed that it would postpone plans to split the business into two because it could not proceed confidently in the current volatile market conditions.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Cable ? Wireless has postponed demerger plans due to the turmoil in financial markets and raised its fullyear profit forecast.
KentNewsNet.com (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Thursday, Nov. 6Kent Stage- Darrell Scott, Richard Shindell 8 p.m. reserved seats $20Friday, Nov. 7Kent Stage- Peter Rowan & Tony Rice 8 p.m. reserved seats $25Saturday, Nov. 8Kent Stage- The Felice Brothers with opener Justin Townes Earle 8 p.m. general admission $20, KSU student (with valid ID) $15Tuesday, Nov. 11Kent Stage- Korean National University of Arts Korean Music Ensemble- 8 p.m.- general...
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
A Hundred Miles or More: Live From The Tracking Room from Alison Krauss won’t be released until next Tuesday (11/11), but Amazon has a sneak peek on their site if you can’t wait another week. The DVD is the home edition of a television special from GAC, itself envisioned as a live recreation of several songs [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
A Hundred Miles or More: Live From The Tracking Room from Alison Krauss won’t be released until next Tuesday (11/11), but Amazon has a sneak peek on their site if you can’t wait another week. The DVD is the home edition of a television special from GAC, itself envisioned as a live recreation of several songs [...]
Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
/CMA/ Nashville, TN -- By Bob DoerschukSierra Hull has played on the Grand Ole Opry, won instrumental contests, performed at Carnegie Hall and shared the stage with Sam Bush, Alison Krauss, Ricky Skaggs and other artists - not bad for a 16-year-old, though those who've known her for a while aren't surprised at the trajectory of her young career. ...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Courtenay: Vancouver's The Breakmen make 3 stops on Vancouver Island to play songs from their new CD. This is blue-grass, old-time, blues and folk music that will win over any audience, any age! Yee-haw.
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Last week, Brance posted a few photos of Mountain Heart performing with Tony Rice at the Keith Case suite on Wednesday of IBMA week. They also did a main stage show during Fan Fest, and fiddler Jim Van Cleve sent along a report with some photos. “Fan Fest was just incredible! We had done a short set earlier [...]
The Bluegrass Blog (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Last night John and I stayed up way past our bedtime so we could check out some of the late night showcases. We took a stroll downtown with Dailey & Vincent (video coming soon), then returned to the convention center for an evening of great music from the Keith Case artists. I snapped a couple photos, [...]
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Qualicum: New Old Stock “New Old Stock is the instrumental cream of the brand new string nation. Harking back to the "grand old days" when new virtuosos seemed to spring onto the scene fully formed.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Just a few days ago, Ron Scott pulled his Bayliner runabout out of the water, figuring he was done boating for the season. But with unusually warm...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Qualicum: Tracing its roots back to musical traditions as diverse as Bluegrass, Celtic and Jazz, New Old Stock boasts four of the most accomplished and creative young talents of their generation.
