Deadline for Bluegrass Europe

Paolo Dettwiler, editor of the EBMA magazine Bluegrass Europe, says:

If you have any news items, concert dates, feature articles, or anything relevant to the next issue of Bluegrass Europe (April-May 2010), please e-mail it to me by 5 March 2010 - thanks!

Bluegrass Europe #72

Bluegrass Europe is a bi-monthly magazine provided free to members of the EBMA in Europe and abroad. It is the first and only magazine dedicated to bluegrass music in Europe. Written in English, Bluegrass Europe is printed and bound with the German Bluegrass Bühne and the Dutch Strictly Country. The three journals appear together under one cover and are all included in EBMA membership. For a free sample, contact Paolo Dettwiler or visit the EBMA website.

Features in the February-March 2010 issue*

Bluegrass Europe #72: Bluegrass Festival Buehl, Germany; Moving on: EBMA board information; European bluegrass news; May 2010: Worldwide month of bluegrass; Sons of Navarone (cover feature); Become an EBMA member; Dolly, I Beg Your Pardon: Bluegrass workshop for children; EBMA's European bluegrass guide

Strictly Country #234: Country Gentlemen Festival 1972; Afbouw?; Bluegrassduinen; News, views, and reviews; New releases; Authentic rare bluegrass 1950s; Bill Monroe postzegels; Gibson Brothers in Oldenburg; Columbia Series #99 - non-country artists; Geitenballen en string bands #3; Bluegrass Unlimited national bluegrass survey; Webco label; Stone Valley concerts

Bluegrass Buehne #175: Editorial/ Inhalt/ Vorschau; Festival & concert reports; Feature: Rainer Zellner; Bandliste (Nachtrag); Tablature, 'Mando power', by Rupert Paulik; MeckerEcke; Feature: Gold Heart; Bericht: USA Fahrt; Termine; news and reviews

*Already posted to subscribers

Bluegrass Europe #73

The deadline for Bluegrass Europe #73 (April-May 2010) is 5 March.

Paolo Dettwiler, editor of BE, has a new postal address:

Paolo Dettwiler
Liestalerstrasse 30
CH-4412 Nuglar
Switzerland

News, articles, letters, concert dates, and other material for publication can also be sent in by e-mail.

Bluegrass Europe #72 deadline: 10 Jan. 2010!

The deadline for the next issue of Bluegrass Europe is 10 January. Paolo Dettwiler, editor of BE, will welcome any news of what will be happening in the new year in your district. Festivals, concerts, workshops, CD releases, etc. planned for February-March are the most urgent issues, but news of festivals and of all major events during the year is also welcome, as this is the time for planning holidays...

Material can be sent in by e-mail.

More news from EBMA national representatives...

In addition to the news from the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, and Portugal that has appeared on the European Bluegrass Blog since 6 November - provided by EBMA national representatives - the next issue of Bluegrass Europe magazine will include national reps' reports from France, Switzerland, Germany, and Ireland.

Kent Miller reports on the successful Swiss Bluegrass Music Association Fan Fest (7 November) and its role in strengthening and increasing the bluegrass community; Christopher Howard-Williams reports on the France Bluegrass Musique Association's 8th Winter Bluegrass Weekend in Vichy (30 October-1 November) - 'after eight years, the town of Vichy is becoming an important centre for bluegrass music in France' -

- Angelika Torrie, as the new editor of Bluegrass Buehne, reports on promising developments on the German bluegrass scene, including the 1st Munich BlueGrass Festival (16-17 October), where the eleven bands included Coolgrass (above) and the Girlie Band (below);


and Richard Hawkins reports on the new crop of successful mini-festivals in different parts of Ireland.

Samuel John Mougin *12.10.2009

Congratulations to Jana Dolakova Mougin (from Slovak based band Fragment) and Stephen Mougin on the birth of their new son on 12th October 2009.

According to Stephen 's report on facebook at 20.40 pm on that day, all are happy and healthy.

Uncle Ned Luberecki, who has just returned from home from teaching at the Munich Banjo Camp, is already teaching him the backwards and forward roll.

Good luck to the young family from this end of the pond. I'm sure many in Europe are looking forward to seeing Jana again on a next tour, together with little Sam...

Text: Angelika Torrie, photos: Stephen Mougin

2nd European Bluegrass Summit to be held 5-7 Feb. 2010 in Bühl, Germany

Dear European Bluegrass Friends,

Following a very successful 1st European Bluegrass Summit in Bühl, Germany, last February, the European Bluegrass Music Association was implicitly asked to take up the thread and offer the platform for a follow up. Also, this event is fully supported by IBMA as a major and effective tool to bring the scene together more closely and to find ways to fulfil the goals set at the first meeting.
Therefore, EBMA is happy to now announce that arrangements to hold the 2nd European Bluegrass Summit on the weekend of 5-7 February 2010 have been made. The convention will be generously hosted again by the city of Bühl offering the entire meeting facilities and infrastructure for free.
A free bluegrass concert will entertain attendees on the evening of Saturday in the famous Bühl Schüttekeller, also sponsored by the City.
As last year, attendees are invited from all quarters in Europe, the costs and arrangements for travel, subsistence and accommodation are the entire responsibility of the participants.
The summit will be limited to 40 delegates and early booking is advised.
Further information and proposed schedule are attached here (EBS2010_schedule.pdf).
Please help us spread the word to people you think should attend this summit by:
1. Circulating this proposal as set out in this e-mail to others who you know to be interested and involved in European Bluegrass.
2. Replying to this e-mail indicating your name; your willingness to attend, and who you represent (i.e. association, band, business or individual etc.)
Please send your responses until 14th November 2009 to admin@ebma.org OR EBMA, Holeerain 29, CH-4102 Binningen, Switzerland

Kind Regards,
Angelika Torrie
European Bluegrass Music Association

Bluegrass publishing in Europe: the way ahead

Left to right: Eberhard Finke, editor of Bluegrass Buehne; Angelika Torrie, treasurer and webmaster of the EBMA; Rienk Janssen, editor of Strictly Country; Paolo Dettwiler, editor of Bluegrass Europe

Thanks to Paolo Dettwiler for the above photo from a meeting of the three editors of Strictly Country, Bluegrass Buehne, and Bluegrass Europe on 4 August 2009 in Lausen, near Basel, Switzerland. Paolo reports:

The meeting was productive and took place in very good spirits as there will be a future for a bluegrass magazine in Europe. Angelika Torrie will be in charge of leading a task force to outline the possibilities for this magazine, possibly in connection with the European Bluegrass Summit 2010. More details will be announced in the next issue of the magazines.

Bluegrass Europe #68

The Bluegrass Europe editorial team regret that technical difficulties led again to misprinting of three pages in issue #68 of the magazine. The pages, as they should have appeared, are now downloadable as PDFs from EBMA's website, here. You may print these pages and insert them in your copy of Bluegrass Europe for completeness.

We believe that the problem has now been fully identified and will not happen again. Thank you for your understanding.

Bluegrass Europe, PDFs of pages 4/8, issue 67

For mysterious reasons some pages of the latest issue of Bluegrass Europe were not printed as they were seen on the editors computer.
The correct PDFs of the pages affected are now downloadable from EBMA's Website at --> www.ebma.org --> Bluegrass Europe. You may print these pages and stick them into your copy of Bluegrass Europe for completness.
We apologize for this mistake, will investigate in why this happened and do our best it won't happen again.
Thank you for your understanding.
For the editorial team
Angelika Torrie

Bluegrass Music all over Europe in May 2009!

All Concerts & Festivals during the EWOB month 2009 are now online!
EBMA.ORG guides you to all that is happening during the EWOB month, as far as it is known by the coordinating body. So far, 145 concerts, festivals and other events are listed. The list will grow and will be updated if you send in information on your bluegrass events in the month of May. Rienk Janssen and EBMA.ORG webmistress Angelika Torrie will keep adding more events, and also it is thinkable that there will be some changes. More details can be found at the websites of the artists and promoters quoted in the list.
Remember, all these events are organised independently, and not by the EBMA (except, of course, the Voorthuizen EWOB festival). To make sure, an event is acutally happening, please refer directly to the organisers.

Bluegrass Europe #67

A message from the editor:

The deadline for the next issue of Bluegrass Europe (#67/ April-May 2009) is a month away. If you have any news items, reviews, concert dates, etc., etc., please make sure to send them to me by 5 March 2009.

For up-to-date European bluegrass news, check out EBMA’s European Bluegrass Blog regularly. Thanks and see you soon!

Paolo Dettwiler
e-mail

Bluegrass Europe #61

Bluegrass Europe is a bi-monthly magazine provided to members of the EBMA in Europe and abroad. It is the first and only magazine dedicated to bluegrass music in Europe. Written in English, Bluegrass Europe is printed and bound with the German Bluegrass Bühne and the Dutch Strictly Country. The three journals appear together under one cover. For a free sample, contact Paolo Dettwiler or visit the EBMA website.

Features in the April–May 2008 issue*

Bluegrass Europe #61: Bluegrass in Norway (cover feature); the story of Czech bluegrass; EWOB 2008: the next ten years; European news coverage; EBMA's European bluegrass guide; concert & festival calendar

Strictly Country #223: Country Gazette exit!; Big Bear Festival 2008; SCR; news, views, and reviews; Frankie 'Blackland Farmer' Miller; Infamous Stringdusters; Columbia Series #88: Eddie Zack & Family; Hippie Hootenanny (pt 2); Half a Turn; Boet'n Deure programme 2008; Gold Tone guitar for EWOB 2008; Bluegrass Unlimited national bluegrass survey

Bluegrass Buehne #164: Lee Morse & the Bluegrass Boys; Monroe Crossing; the Steeldrivers; tab 'Golden slippers' by Steve Kaufman; EWOB CD 1998-2007; Tony Trischka in the Czech Republic; concert and record reviews

*This issue, which begins the second decade of publication, has been posted to subscribers, together with the EWOB 2008 Guide.

Bluegrass Europe #61

The next issue of Bluegrass Europe, the magazine of the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA), will be #61 (April-May 2008).

The editor, Paolo Dettwiler, who is also chair of the EBMA, wishes to remind everyone that the deadline for news items, concert dates, advertisements, and other material to appear in issue #61 is Sunday 16 March.

Issue #61 will include as title story 'Bluegrass in Norway', with an interview with Dagfinn Pedersen of the Norwegian Bluegrass Music Association; and 'Czech bluegrass history', by Lilly Pavlak. The EWOB Guide will also be issued with the magazine.

Bluegrass Europe
Paolo R. Dettwiler
Steinenweg 8
CH-4133 Pratteln
Switzerland
Phone: +41 61 821 83 63
Fax +41 61 821 83 64
e-mail

Bluegrass Europe #60

The next issue of Bluegrass Europe, the magazine of the European Bluegrass Music Association (EBMA), will be #60 (February-March 2008), marking ten years since the magazine was first published.

The editor, Paolo Dettwiler, who is also chair of the EBMA, wishes to remind everyone that the deadline for news items, concert dates, advertisements, and other material to appear in the next issue is Friday 18 January.

Bluegrass Europe
Paolo R. Dettwiler
Steinenweg 8
CH-4133 Pratteln
Switzerland
Phone: +41 61 821 83 63
Fax +41 61 821 83 64
e-mail

Bluegrass Europe, Bluegrass Buehne, Strictly Country

On 17 July Rienk Janssen (editor of Strictly Country), Eberhard Finke (editor of Bluegrass Buehne), Friedrich Hog (a well known bluegrass journalist in Germany) and Paolo Dettwiler (editor of Bluegrass Europe) met in Ulm, Germany. The meeting took place in a very positive spirit, underlining the importance of the magazines and taking steps to assure their future.

Rienk Janssen plans to continue editing Strictly Country till 2011. Eberhard Finke will continue as overall editor of Bluegrass Buehne, with Michael Zumstein of the EBMA Board taking care of design and layout. Paolo Dettwiler is prepared to continue editing Bluegrass Europe till 2011, should the EBMA Board want him to do so. Friedrich Hog will take over the duty of editing the Concert Calendar in the middle part of the three magazines.

Bluegrass Europe #55 (April/May 2007)

Bluegrass Europe is a bi-monthly magazine provided to members of the EBMA in Europe and abroad. It is the first and only magazine dedicated to bluegrass music in Europe. Written in English, Bluegrass Europe is printed and bound with the German Bluegrass Bühne and the Dutch Strictly Country. The three journals appear together under one cover. For a free sample, contact Paolo Dettwiler or visit the EBMA website.

Features in the April–May 2007 issue*

Bluegrass Europe #55: Andy Owens & Druha Trava: international bluegrass music(cover feature); EBMA's 10th EWOB; European news coverage; IBMA's International Outreach Fund; Liz Meesters: bluegrass for kids; CD reviews; concert & festival calendar; EBMA's European bluegrass guide

Strictly Country #217: 25th Big Bear Festival; Hugh & Katy Moffatt in Harpel; 14th Annual Picking Party; Folksong revival, part 5; Babes in the Grass; News, views, and reviews; Johanna & the Brand New Allstars + Banjöhead; Columbia Series # 82: Country music after WWII, part 3; new Paul Craft CD from SCR; BU National Bluegrass Survey

Bluegrass Buehne #158: Festival and concert reports; Claire Lynch; the International Cajun Trio; Roland Heinrich, Jimmie Rodgers and Johnny Cash; the Infamous Stringdusters; Renaud Martin in Australia, part II; tablature, 'Papa's banjo'; news and reviews

*This issue has been posted to subscribers

Bluegrass Europe #54 (Feb./Mar. 2007)

Bluegrass Europe is a bi-monthly magazine provided to members of the EBMA in Europe and abroad. It is the first and only magazine dedicated to bluegrass music in Europe. Written in English, Bluegrass Europe is printed and bound with the German Bluegrass Bühne and the Dutch Strictly Country. The three journals appear together under one cover. For a free sample, contact Paolo Dettwiler or visit the EBMA website.

Features in the February–March 2007 issue*

Bluegrass Europe #54: Blue Side of Town: a German shade of grass (cover feature); EWOB 2007; enlarged European news coverage; Jana and Steve Mougin interviewed by Petr Brandejs; CD reviews; concert & festival calendar; EBMA's European bluegrass guide

Strictly Country #216: International Mandolin Academy; Roasted Barley; Folksong revival, part 4; Babes in the Grass; News, views, and reviews; Mideando String Quintet; Columbia Series # 81: Country music after WWII, part 2; Top country songs 1944-2005; Bluegrass holiday in the USA; Boet'n Deure

Bluegrass Buehne #157: Jeanette Williams on tour; the Wilders on tour; Rebel on iTunes; Lantana; Renaud Martin in Australia; tablature for 'Washington Lee Swing'; 5th Bühl Bluegrass Festival; concert and record reviews

*This issue has been posted to subscribers

Bluegrass Europe Magazine

Bluegrass Europe is a bi-monthly magazine provided to members of the EBMA in Europe and abroad. It is the first and only magazine dedicated to bluegrass music in Europe. Written in English, Bluegrass Europe is printed and bound with the German Bluegrass Bühne and the Dutch Strictly Country. The three journals appear together under one cover. For a free sample, contact Paolo Dettwiler or visit the EBMA website.

Features in the December 2006–January 2007 issue*

Bluegrass Europe #53: Blue Railroad Train (cover feature); European and international news; concert & festival calendar; EBMA's European bluegrass guide

Strictly Country #215: Bluegrass Christmas CDs; New releases; Folksong revival, part 3; Relaxation; Potomac Valley Boys; 14th Annual Picking Party; Hollewaai & Huys ter Duyn; Columbia Series # 80: Country music after WWII, part 1; the 10th EWOB

Bluegrass Buehne #156: 20 years Matching Ties; Annual band list; Farewell to Neusuedende; Czech festival at Caslav; Christmas market; tablature for 'Lost Indian'; IBMA convention; concert and record reviews

*This issue is now on its way to subscribers