With less than one month until the 5th Annual Bear Creek Music & Arts Festival kicks off, today event promoters have released the daily stage performance schedule here: www.bearcreekmusicfestival.com/artists/schedule. Music runs nearly round-the-clock music on 7 stages, including a Silent Disco stage new to Bear Creek this year.

Bay Area “bluegrass/folk star” Laurie Lewis releases today her new full-length recording, called “a beautiful and landmark album” and “magnificent” by Country Standard Time, a heartfelt tribute to Father of Bluegrass Bill Monroe entitled SKIPPIN’ AND FLYIN’ (Spruce and Maple Music) that captures Lewis’ GRAMMY-winning vocals and special songwriting and arranging.SKIPPIN’ AND FLYIN’ features a fine mix of songs by Monroe himself, Jimmie Rodgers, Maybelle Carter,

Seminal guitar wizard, Steve Kimock is joined by longtime friend and bassist Bobby Vega (Zero, KVHW, Sly & the Family Stone), legendary keyboard player Bernie Worrell (founding member of Parliament Funkadelic), dynamic drummer Wally Ingram, with special guests, for a weekend with Steve Kimock & Friends at the Brooklyn Bowl on November 4 & 5.

Z2 Entertainment is proud to present The Infamous Stringdusters Ski Tour 2012 at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, January 18th.  Tickets go on sale Friday, October 21st for $16.00 in advance and $18.00 day of show.The Infamous Stringdusters are at the forefront of a new movement in bluegrass music. Their unmatched virtuosity has enabled them to take acoustic music to a completely new level.

Grammy Award-winning guitarist and composer Bill Frisell and Obie-winning experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison recently premiered “The Great Flood,” - an electrifying, soulful, and thought provoking 75-minute multimedia work of original music and film inspired by the 1927 Mississippi River floods.

The latest entries in Audio Fidelity's series of high-end reissues of classic albums arrive on October 18 when the label delivers 24-Karat Gold CDs of two era-defining sets.

Coldplay will rock out on "The Colbert Report" for the first time this Thursday, October 20 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Furthur will say goodbye to 2011 and ring in 2012 with a three night run at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, December 29, 30 and 31.Mail Order: Saturday, October 15 through Saturday, November 12Internet Pre-Sales: Monday, October 17 at Noon EST through Thursday, October 20 at 6:00 PM ESTPublic On Sa