Bluegrass Australia

Home Page

Anniversaries this week

  • 13/7 - Rhonda Vincent (1962)
  • 13/7 - Riley Puckett (died this day in 1946)
  • 13/7 - Mike Barber (1970)
  • 14/7 - Lonnie Peerce (1923)
  • 14/7 - Richard Underwood (1956)
  • 14/7 - Clarence White (died this day in 1973) - Hit by a car in Palmdale, CA
  • 15/7 - Linda Ronstadt (1946)
  • 17/7 - Samuel Krauss (1999) - Son of fiddler/singer/producer Alison Krauss

  • 17/7 - Gary Henderson (1944) - Leading bluegrass broadcaster on WAMU and bluegrasscountry.org
  • 17/7 - Cary Black (1950)
  • 17/7 - Tom Holt (1951)
  • 17/7 - Cleo Davis (died this day in 1986)
  • 18/7 - Gary Waldrep (1963)
  • 18/7 - Ricky Skaggs (1954)
  • 19/7 - Bernie Leadon (1947)
  • 19/7 - Alan Lomax (died this day in 2002) - Famed song collector and recording engineer, died in Sarasota, Florida
  • 19/7 - Terry Woodward (1937)

Register

Free site registration

Quotable Quotes:

If you call up Keith Richards, and say, 'Emmy needs you to come over and change the cat box, tomorrow morning,' he'll get on a plane and come over and do it. He thinks she hung the moon.

(Linda Ronstadt in Goldmine Magazine, August 2, 1996)

Release of the day

Today's featured new release:
Randy Waller: Randy Waller
Randy Waller: Randy Waller (Lendel Records)
Read a review ...

PLUS: More of the latest new CDs from Australia and overseas.

Home Page

This is the main home page of the Bluegrass Australia site. Thanks for being a part of the project, to create a principal resource centre for Australian bluegrass fans.

SYDNEY BLUEGRASS JULY 5th

 The next get-together in Sydney is on July 5th

Annandale Neighbourhood Centre 79 Johnston St ANNANDALE.  Starts 6:30 pm with Safety In Numbers Singing jam. Concert time 8p.m

Karen Lynne & Acoustic Shock; Southern Alliance; Mighty Fine Stringband; Plus Lots More! All welcome BTCMSA concession:

The calendar - It's Back!!!!

It's back!  A while back, the calendar was one of the most popular parts of the site,  and when the site was rebiult it got pushed to the back of the queue.  Now it's back and anyone can add their own events to the calendar.

That means any of the following can be added:

  • Band gigs (including repeating gigs - you can add a weekly gig for as many weeks as you want)
  • Jam sessions - regular or otherwise.  One-off or every week/month
  • Society meetings
  • Festivals
  • Conventions
  • whatever you like.

Soon, we'll be putting back the radio show listings too, and they'll also appear on the calendar page too.

All we require is that the event be bluegrass-related or old-time country related and in Australia.   We will be keeping it tightly focussed because that way it's more relevant to the readers of the site.

How to add an event (or series of events) to the calendar:

  1. First you must be a registered user of the site.     Registration is free, but that way we can make sure we know who is posting what to the site.
  2. Then log in, go to the registered users area and add the details of your event using the wizard.
  3. You can add your event and then change the dates, so you can re-use the same event description for repeating events.   You can even set up a band gig, say, then when it comes to the dates for the gig, you can have it work out the dates for every second Thursday of the month until July 2009 and the system will work it all out for you and add the dates to the calendar automatically.
  4. You can change or delete any date later if your circumstances change.
  5. Your event will initially need to be approved by our webmaster to check that the event is consistent with the objectives of the web site.

If you're not already a registered user of the site,  do so now, and you can start getting the benefits of having your concert/gig/jam session/bluegrass picnic seen by  the readers of Australia's most-read bluegrass site!

This month inside Bluegrass Australia

Do you want to know of other bluegrass fans in your area?   Do you sit in your living room playing your instrument to CDs, wondering if there are others doing the same thing?   Why not get together with others in an informal setting and see what "the best fun you can have with your clothes on" is like.   

Why not arrange a jam session in a park somewhere or at a private home and put the event in our calendar.  See the calendar page for details of how to add your event to the calendar.

 Got any pictures?

Have you got pictures of bluegrass-related happenings in Australia?  We'd love to have them on our site.   Historical, current,  wacky or serious.  Doesnt matter.  Naturally, we will give full credit to the photographer and/or copyright owner, with links to your own web site if you wish.  Just contact the webmaster through the contact us page.

 

Events around Australia

Whats on in your area - concerts, meetings, events, and radio presentations where you are

more ....

Magazine

Interesting info about bluegrass - news, snippets, reviews, how-tos and interesting articles

more ....

Festivals

The major events on the bluegrass calendar - the main gathering points for acoustic musicians and the best fun you can have with your clothes on!

more ....

About Bluegrass Australia

About the Bluegrass Societies around Australia.

more ....

Links

Our favourite bluegrass sites, find bluegrass on the web, Where to find the sites  covering bluegrass around the world.

more ....

Contact Us

How to find us, make contact with people in the various Bluegrass organisations around the country.

more ....

Site Map

What's where, how to get there, and shortcut to anywhere on the site.

more ....

Member Login

Login for registered site users.

more ....

Home Page

This is the main home page of the Bluegrass Australia site. Thanks for being a part of the project, to create a principal resource centre for Australian bluegrass fans.

more ....