The Bluegrass Hotel, a major video and recording project, is rolling along, with a full slate of activities scheduled in mid-December in Kentucky.

The project gets its name from an old Victorian mansion in Louisville, Ky., that was a key component of the bluegrass scene and the home of some major music artists during the Newgrass era of the 1970s.

The project will go full-tilt, beginning Dec. 12, when Sam Bush, Dan Crary, Curtis Burch, Jim McGuire,

An all-out effort — including fundraising — is under way to put the finishing touches on a video documentary entitled “The Life and Music of John Hartford.”

It’s being undertaken by two media professionals who are also musicians and self-professed admirers of the late Hartford, best known to the generic music world as writer of the Glen Campbell classic, “Gentle on My Mind,” a song that barely scratched the surface of Hartford’s unique view of the world and life.

“Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music” is the latest DVD release from MVD Visual.
No single figure in American music so dominated a genre as did Bill Monroe with bluegrass.
MVD Visual has added to that legacy by releasing a DVD entitled “Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music.” The DVD, produced by Steve Gebhardt, features interviews [...]

Flatt and Scruggs
NASHVILLE, Tenn., The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum and Shanachie Entertainment will release the Best of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show, Volume Three and Volume Four on October 9th.
Like their critically acclaimed predecessors (volumes one and two), which were released last March, each volume contains two 30-minute episodes of [...]