Sign up to the new Bending the Strings website!

Thanks to Vinny Baker (centre, above) for the evocative photo of BTS pickin' on the front porch, for the following news, and for the kind words:

Bending the Strings 'Honky Tonk Bluegrass' band have a brand new website which is now nearing completion, and at this stage we would invite all readers of the Bluegrass Ireland Blog to visit our website, go to the guestbook, and sign up to our webpage. That way we can send you news on the band, our dates/festivals and news of our upcoming official album launch and our new video for promotion and Rural TV which is currently being shot - that is, if you want us to do so.

We would be very grateful to all festival-goers and bluegrass fans who would pay us the tremendous compliment of signing up to our website; and we take this opportunity to thank all the people who have supported us in the past and who will continue to support us in the future, and also all the promoters and bluegrass festival organisers who have had us in their festivals, and finally to the greatest supporter of all things Bluegrass... Mr Richard Hawkins who puts such tremendous time and energy into the invaluable Bluegrass Ireland Blog. From Vinny, Martin, and Moyra in Bending the Strings, thank you Richard, and we are proud to call you our friend.

You can contact Bending the Strings at the following addresses: the band's e-mail; Vinny's e-mail or VeeBee Recording Studio, Newdown, The Downs, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath; or, of course, sign in to our website.