Registration is still being accepted for the 3rd Annual Monroe-Style Mandolin Camp, sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Ky.
The camp will be held Sept. 12-14 in Owensboro.Registration will be capped at 50 participants.
The faculty this year includes Richie Brown, Mike Compton, Bobby Osborne, Frank Wakefield, Butch Waller and Roland White. Guest [...]

Elkins, W. VA — Bluegrass Week, billed as “The Original Pickin’ Camp,” runs from July 27 to Aug. 2 at the Augusta Heritage Center in Elkins, W. Va.
Guest artists this year are Tim O’Brien and Stuart Duncan, who complement a lengthy list of faculty members teaching instrumentation and vocal instruction.
Fiddle instructors are Bobby Hicks, Buddy [...]

Pickers in the Northwest might be interested in honing their mandolin and guitar skills in May when Roland White, Diane Bouska and Mike Compton present workshops and a concert at The Humane Society of Redmond Event Center in Redmond, Ore.
White will present a beginning mandolin class and his wife, Bouska, will teach a class [...]

In honor of Ralph Stanley’s 72nd birthday on Feb. 25th, Murphy Method is having a sale on their Ralph Stanley Style DVD. The sale price is only $20.00 plus shipping and the sale price is good from now through February. The DVD teaches the popular “Clinch Mountain Backstep,” the huge hit, “Man of Constant [...]

David Grier
Acoustic guitarists from throughout the Midwest are expected to converge on the banks of the Mississippi River March 7-9 for St. Louis Flatpick, a three-day workshop augmented by concerts.Clay Hess and David Grier will lead the workshops and be featured in live performances.
The event will be held at the Crown Plaza Airport Hotel in [...]