The GrassCast is a weekly audio podcast brought to you by The Bluegrass Blog, which features interviews and conversations with bluegrass performers, educators, newsmakers and personalities. You’ll hear what your favorite artists are doing, catch pre-release samples from their upcoming CD projects, and find out what they have coming up in the near future.

Each 10-15 minute GrassCast episode can be played from within your browser window, downloaded to your hard drive for listening at your convenience - or you may prefer to subscribe for free from Apple’s iTunes Music Store to listen to them on your iPod. iTunes subscriptions are automatically downloaded as they are released, so each new episode will be ready the next time you open iTunes.

You can find the current and all previous Grasscasts here. If you scroll down this page, you can either listen to each podcast in turn using the flash audio player, or download any mp3 files you choose to your desktop.

Each episode is hosted by Brance Gillihan of Clear Blue Poductions and John Lawless of AcuTab Publications, the primary authors of The Bluegrass Blog. Brance and John”s work inside the bluegrass music business allow them both access to the artists, and an insight into the inner workings of the bluegrass world.

Like The Bluegrass Blog - our online bluegrass news site - The GrassCast will be of interest to anyone who plays or enjoys bluegrass music. New fans and students of bluegrass will find as much to enjoy in our podcasts as long time bluegrass lovers, or people currently performing or working in the industry.

Join us each week on The GrassCast for a look inside bluegrass, and visit with the people who make the music. Recent guests have included Rhonda Vincent, Sammy Shelor, members of Mountain Heart, The Infamous Stringdusters, Alan Bibey, Doyle Lawson, Jim Mills, Don Rigsby, Ronnie Reno, Larry Cordle, Bobby Hicks, Ronnie Bowman and Wichita Rutehrford.

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We also offer a free download of our very own customized iPodder software. The GrassCast iPodder software comes preloaded with a subscription to The GrassCast. All you need to do is download and run it. It also contains our logo, linked directly to the category page of this site which contains the text of all The GrassCast episodes.

Download The GrassCast iPodder software:

for Mac OS 10.3 or higher
for Windows 2000 or XP

To subscribe with your own podcatching software, copy and past this url into the appropriate entry box in your software: http://www.thegrasscast.com/rss