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Yo-Yo Ma is a master facilitator, a crafter of people and music into projects that can deepen our understanding of almost any musical tradition.

Recently, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, fiddler Stuart Duncan, double bassist Edgar Meyer and mandolin player Chris Thile got together to make an Appalachian styled string music record, and called it The Goat Rodeo Sessions. According to the Urban Dictionary, a Goat Rodeo is "the most polite term used by aviation people (and others in higher risk situations) to describe a scenario [...]

Classical + bluegrass = a truly amazing album.

The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , Video Archive As my buddy Ben said when he sent me this link and album, "YoYo Ma does bluegrass...saw them performing on Colbert last night , it may have changed my life. This album is AMAZING!" Indeed. Those were exactly my sentiments. You can pick up The Goat Rodeo Sessions at Amazon for only $12.

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News A longtime American festival standard, the Telluride Bluegrass festival, held annually in the rural and scenic town of Telluride, Colo. for nearly four decades, has announced this year's initial lineup. Robert Plant and the Band of Joy (pictured) tops the bill, followed by a unique and intriguing supergroup calling themselves the Telluride House Band. That band's roster includes Bela Fleck , Sam Bush , Jerry Douglas , Edgar Meyer , Bryan Sutton and Stuart Duncan . [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News A longtime American festival standard, the Telluride Bluegrass festival, held annually in the rural and scenic town of Telluride, Colo. for nearly four decades, has announced this year's initial lineup. Robert Plant and the Band of Joy (pictured) tops the bill, followed by a unique and intriguing supergroup calling themselves the Telluride House Band. That band's roster includes Bela Fleck , Sam Bush , Jerry Douglas , Edgar Meyer , Bryan Sutton and Stuart Duncan . [...]

A celebration at Chez Cora for Toronto label Out of this Spark's third anniversary with owner Stuart Duncan and Jonas Bonnetta of the latest OOTS signee, Evening Hymns.

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Elvis Costello is returning to the acoustic country-roots sound of 1986's King of America , on his newest upcoming album Secret, Profane & Sugarcane , which will be released in early June.  Costello went back to work with T Bone Burnett , whom he collaborated with on both Spike and King of America , to produce Sugarcane , which will be released on June 2, again on Hear Music (better known as Starbucks' [...]