Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys

An excellent, extensive resource for details on the hundreds of
"Blue Grass Boys" who worked with Bill Monroe throughout his career.

For more than half a century being a Blue Grass Boy was the crowning achievement of many a musicians' career. For others, a stepping stone to establishing their own bands. This site is intended as a tribute to all the musicians who contributed to the creation of Bill Monroe's music. It is all that and more...

TeenGrass

A safe, new online discussion list for pre-teen, teen, and young adult Bluegrass musicians. The site allows uploading pictures and files, and is a great networking tool for its young members to share information about Bluegrass with one another. To fully access the site the user must have a Yahoo profile (which is easy to create), but the email list can also be delivered to any dedicated email system. The group is fully moderated by an adult, Garian Vigil, who guarantees that no spam nor any inappropriate subject matter wiil get past the screening process. Garian Vigil (from Colorado) has been a teacher, journalist, sociolgist and much more. She has several degrees and has written many papers and articles pertaining to music. See Garian's extensive resume at garianvigil.com.

This is a safe online haven and unique opportunity for any young musician!

iBluegrass.com

Arguably the most complete, current Internet Bluegrass "magazine" on the internet. Extremely professional resource and very user friendly Bluegrass website...and everything is FREE....including free listings/links for Bluegrass related content. (See their Bluegrass website services info below)

Bluegrass Web Services:
Proprieters Skip & Glenda Ogden began offering discount website hosting & building in the late 1980s (during the early days of the IBMA in Owensboro, KY). They offer their services at a reduced rate to any Bluegrass band or nonprofit Bluegrass organization. Their company is iBest.net and they have been very reliable, dependable folks who even answer their own emails & phone calls! CTBLUEGRASS.ORG is proud to be hosted by iBest.net !!

AcousticFriends.com

Acousticfriends.com was developed to provide a social network for acoustic musicians, acoustic music fans and others that have an interest in Americana, Bluegrass, Folk, Irish/Celtic, Old Timey Stringband and the music of Singer-Songwriters. Membership is FREE and will allow you to meet and interact with others that share your love of acoustic music.

For example you can find members:
• to jam with locally and out of town,
• to form a new band with,
• that give music lessons,
• to exchange songs with,
• to share a ride and expenses to concerts and festivals to keep the music supported in spite of rising fuel costs,
• established and aspiring acoustic musicians can be seen and heard by posting their music, video and upcoming show information. This feature will be available to all members later this Summer.
...and much more.

Bluegrass Music Profiles
  A unique bi-monthly Bluegrass music magazine which made its national debut in March 2003. 'Unique' in that their articles focus on the more personal side of the artists and various people associated with Bluegrass music. Their mission is "to have a good time gettin' personal with Bluegrass artists so we can deliver well-written and informative articles to you."

Bluegrass Cafe Blog
An online resource for information on all things Bluegrass in New England from the folks at WHUS Radio's Bluegrass Cafe program from the Univ. of Connecticut (Sunday's 4pm - 7pm).

The Bluegrass Blog
Excellent website by banjo player John Lawless (Accutab founder) and Brance Gillihan. The most up-to-the-minute site yet for Bluegrass news! Loads of important information, timely news, stories, and more. A very innovative, extremely well done website.

BGRASS-L
Go here to join this international Bluegrass discussion list.

FIDDLE-L
Go here to join a fiddle discussion list.