Updates

On banjo, the new album by Alison Brown, was released last Friday (5 May), and has been reviewed by Henry Carrigan on No Depression. The review includes a video of one of the tracks, 'Porches', accompanied by the Kronos Quartet, which is also on YouTube.

Further update 19 May: On banjo has made its debut on the Billboard bluegrass chart at #1.

Following on from the BIB post of 5 May, Amos Perrine introduces on No Depression a compilation of sixty-three fine photos of artists performing at last month's MerleFest, including one (taken by himself) of Louise Holden of Dublin's I Draw Slow.

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