Bean Blossom, IN. — The 4th Annual Youth Bluegrass Boot Camp, sponsored by First Quality Music Supply, Recording King, J. D. Crowe and The New South, and Central Indiana Bluegrass, will take place Sunday-Tuesday – June 14 – 16, 2009. Camp Organizer, Sarah Wasson has added more professional instructors and classes due to popular demand with over 70 kids signed up to date – well over the 50 originally planned. Now only a few slots remain for: Intermediate and Advance Guitar; Intermediate or Advance Mandolin; and Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Banjo….

Wilkesboro, N.C. — MerleFest is known not only for presenting excellent entertainment on its musical stages, but also for giving aspiring musicians an opportunity to learn from the masters through various workshops, and allowing them to compete in three instrument contests.

MerleFest 2009, presented by Lowe’s, is proud to announce the winners of this year’s instrument contests:…

Roe Entertainment recently signed Patuxent recording artists, Darren Beachley & Legends Of The Potomac, adding yet another nationally touring bluegrass act to their already impressive family of clients. “I was excited when I heard Darren had put a band together,” says Jim Roe, owner of Roe Entertainment, “Then, when you see who’s in the band, it just doesn’t get any better than that….

WILKESBORO, N.C. (April 28, 2009)–The 17th annual Chris Austin Songwriting Contest, held during MerleFest 2009 presented by Lowe’s, is proud to announce this year’s winners. The following six writers have now joined an elite group of previous winners which also includes Gillian Welch, Tift Merritt, Michael Reno Harrell, Adrienne Young, Martha Scanlan, David Via and Johnny Williams:…

Bluegrass legend Curly Seckler will join his stepson Johnny Warren at the Station Inn in Nashville, Tenn., this Saturday (May 2) to celebrate the release of the new CD, “A Tribute to Fiddlin’ Paul Warren.” The tribute starts at 9 p.m.

Seckler is a guest musician on the CD, which pays homage to the late Warren, best known for his long association with Flatt & Scruggs and later, with Flatt’s Nashville Grass….