St. Louis area flat-picking giant Bull Harmon is recovering from a heart attack he suffered last Sunday at his home.

According to his wife Tammy, who also plays bass in Harmon’s band Bull’s Eye, doctors discovered “two critical blocked arteries in his heart.” A medical team placed two stents in the blocked vessels.

Saturday Nov. 1st — Claire Lynch along with Jim Hurst will perform at 8:00 p.m. at Chais Music Hall in Wartrace, Tenn. The music hall is located in the Walking Horse Hotel at 101 Spring St.

With the 2008 Uncle Pen Days Bluegrass Festival at Bean Blossom now just a memory, our good friends and faithful readers, Steve and Sue Mobley sent us some images they took during the 2008 festival.

In the near future we’ll also have the lineup for the 43rd annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival that is scheduled for June 13-20, 2009. Bluegrass acts currently booked for the festival include: The Dan Tyminski Band, The Dixie Bee-liners, Steep Canyon Rangers, Longview and many more.

Nashville, Tenn. — Wyatt Easterling will host an early Thursday evening show of fellow High Horse Recording artists and performers, starting November 6 and continuing on the first Thursday of each month for the foreseeable future. This coming week the series features the music of Easterling, Colleen McFarland and The Rhythm Angels, (Rebecca Folsom and Celeste Krenz). Each artist will play short sets at the Listening Room, 209 - 10th Ave So, (Cummins Station) Nashville, Tenn.