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Bluegrass Briefing – May 29th 2024

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and announcements – Church Street News  IBMA international stage Fisher Center’s Bluegrass on Hudson 2024 Series Releases (The Grass is New)…

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Bronwyn Keith-Hynes on her new record ‘I Built a World’ and winning a Grammy with Molly Tuttle

My guest this week is Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, who returns to chat about her great new record 'I Built a World', which comes out on Friday May 24th. This is Bronwyn's first record as a lead singer and we chat about her song choices, the musicians she chose for the record, the wonderful line up of…

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Bluegrass Briefing – May 20th 2024

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and announcements – Church Street News  Blue Ridge Music Center Summer Series Blue Highway Fest IBMA tickets Releases (The Grass is…

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Oliver Burkeman on Why Now is the Time To Do the Things You Love

My guest this week is Oliver Burkeman, best-selling author of the book 'Four Thousand Weeks – Time Management for Mortals.' 'Four Thousand Weeks' isn't a book about bluegrass, or American acoustic music…or even about music. But, it addresses so many of the the things that can trip us up and stop us from making the…

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Bluegrass Briefing – May 13th 2024

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. Podcast news Dave Sinko interview News and announcements – Church Street News  North Carolina Guitar Celebration Telluride Lineup Releases (The Grass is…

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Dave Sinko – Capturing Sound for Punch Brothers and Edgar Meyer

My guest this week is legendary sound engineer Dave Sinko. Dave joins me to talk about his 17 year collaboration with Punch Brothers, including running their live sound, from using mics and pickups on every instrument, right down to single mic shows (and most points in between). We also chatted about Dave's long standing collaboration…

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Bluegrass Briefing – May 6th 2024

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode News and announcements – Church Street News  IBMA Industry Awards My recent interview with Jim Mills Releases (The Grass is New) The…

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Bluegrass Briefing – April 29th 2024

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode News and announcements – Church Street News  Church Street Blues reissue Church Street Blues 40th Anniversary Episode part 1 Church Street Blues…

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How to Coach a Band with Stephen Mougin (Sam Bush Band/Dark Shadow Recording)

My guest this week is Stephen Mougin, guitarist in The Sam Bush Band and founder of Dark Shadow Recording. In this episode we talk about Stephen's work as a band coach. We chat about his training as a vocal teacher, what bands should be working on, including how they should be rehearsing, why preparing for…

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Bluegrass Briefing – April 22nd 2024

Welcome to this week’s Bluegrass Briefing, a weekly series of episodes taking a look at what’s going on in the world of bluegrass. Here are the links to stuff mentioned in this episode. News and announcements – Church Street News  Library of Congress list Releases (The Grass is New) The Grass is (mostly) New 2024…

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