Sam Bush, Vince Gill, Dan Crary, Curtis Burch and other former members of the New Grass Revival and The Bluegrass Alliance – two of Bluegrass music’s most influential bands – participated in the successful launch of a major film and recording project at the 2008 International Bluegrass Music Association convention in Nashville, Tenn., last month.

The project, The Bluegrass Hotel, is based on an old Victorian mansion in Louisville, Ky., that was a key component of the bluegrass scene and the residence of major music artists during the Newgrass era of the 1970s.

The November – December 2008 Bluegrass Music Profiles Magazine is pleased to announce their 3rd Annual Women in Bluegrass will feature Carrie Hassler, one of bluegrass music’s most gifted female vocalist. Carrie Hassler & Hard Rain jumped on the scene several years ago with their Billboard Bluegrass Chart debut album on Rural Rhythm Records and the label just released the groups new CD, CHHR2 that that just made its debut at #3 on Billboard Bluegrass Top 50 Album Chart.

Rock maple stained in a stunning black, with white mother of pearl neck inlays and proudly bearing a white Made in the USA star, the new Midnight Special Goodtime resonator model now stands boldly alongside Deerings other Goodtime models, the most popular selling American made banjos in the world. The maple resonator is stained in black with a striking whitebinding that offsets the nickel plated hardware and steel tone ring.

We aren’t saying Darin Aldridge and Brooke Justice are a match made in heaven, but …

… they definitely have something going for them along those lines with the release of their new gospel CD, I’ll Go With You, on Pinecastle Records.