Well-known bluegrass festival photographer Phil Zimmerman has just released a book “Bluegrass Time: A Musician’s Photographs of the Early Days of Bluegrass Festivals.”

It is being published by Greenwell-Chisholm Printing Co., of Owensboro, Ky.

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,