The Murphy Method website has cooked up a great sale that runs from now through August 31, 2009….

Casey Henry will be teaching banjo at the “FiddleStar International Jam Camp” presented by FiddleStar and The Murphey Method in Ridgetop, Tenn….

Special Consensus will perform a special hometown release concert celebrating their new Pinecastle Records CD, Signs, at Fitzgeralds in Berwyn, Ill, a Chicago suburb, on May 30. The band will perform from 7 to 9 p.m.

Advance ticket sales are available through www.ticketweb.com.

Pinecastle Records is offering a free download of…

As part of a special Nashville Day for Chicago-based Special Consensus, the band will host a CD release party Friday at The Station Inn, the premier bluegrass nightclub in Nashville, Tenn.

Open to the public, the event starts at 9:30 p.m….

Just on the heels of the release of their latest album, Chicago-based Special Consensus plans to do Nashville, Tenn., in a big way later this month.

Band leader Greg Cahill and his supporting trio of pickers, with the help of their label, Pinecastle Records, have declared April 24 “a Nashville day.”…

Let’s be fair — and honest here.

I really enjoy Special Consensus, the band. I firmly believe the band’s moniker doesn’t lie. It, indeed, is special. Special in song selection and special in delivery. And, I should tell you before I ramble into my somewhat skewed critique, I’m also acquainted with members of this band. They’ve broken bread at my table and we’ve sipped some nectar of the gods together….