Nashville, Tenn., — Crowned as “one of the greatest open-mike nights ever seen in Nashville” by host Keith Urban, an all-star concert featuring nine top country acts and four hours of non-stop hits drew countless standing ovations from a sold-out crowd of 14,000 at the city’s downtown Sommet Center—all to raise funds and promote fan support for the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum….

The trail has gone cold since the 2001 release of Mountain Soul, a collection of bluegrass covers by one-time country music hot property Patty Loveless.

But Loveless is picking up where she left off eight years ago with the release of Mountain Soul II….

The Grascals, one of bluegrass’s hottest acts, have been selected to perform Tuesday (Sept. 22) for the annual Academy of Country Music’s Honors Show at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center. This is the second year for the show, which is an invitation-only event staged as a musical tribute with special presentations for the off-camera category winners from the 44th annual ACM Awards show, which was held and televised nationally earlier this year….

Nashville, Tenn., — At a donation ceremony wreathed with her songs, the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum today paid tribute to 1997 Country Music Hall of Fame^® inductee Cindy Walker for a standing room only audience of invited guests and Museum visitors….

Never mind that he has a new movie (The Pink Panther 2) coming out Friday. All comedian and actor Steve Martin seems to want to talk about these days is his new CD.

His new banjo CD, that is.

Entitled The Crow: New Songs for the Five-String Banjo, the album is no laughing matter….