PRIVATE BANJO LESSONS - Private banjo lesson with Alan Munde in the Wimberley, Texas area. Located between Austin and San Antonio in the beautiful hill country of Texas. Call 512-847-5815 for appointment

Ranch Road 12 (Janice and Elliott Rogers and I) will be at this small art oriented coffe house for some bluegrass music making 7-9 pm.  This will be our first time at this establishment and it could by yours too.  1704 E. 5th between Chacon and Comal.  www.cafemundimyspace.com

Artz is the home of bluegrass in Austin. Ranch Road 12 (Janice and Elliot Rogers and Alan Munde) along with mandolin wizard Billy Bright, and fiddle player with a brain and talent, Mike Montgomery will be gracing the dark corner of Artz from 6-9.  Enjoy the barbara-que and music with us that evening.  See you there.  Located on South Lamar.  www.artzribhouse.com

Elliott and I traveled to Nashville in early March and recorded this show for XM Satellite Radio.  Track By Track host Kyle Cantrell interviewed Elliott and me and played all the cuts from the Alan Munde Gazette's recent CD Made to Last.  The CD is selling well and getting played around the country and world.  This is a chance to hear it all and the stories behind the songs - not to be missed.  Wednesday, April 8, 11am (ET); Sunday April 12, 11 am (ET); Tuesday April 15, 9 pm.  www.xmradio.com  

I will be traveling to France for a workshop along with world-famous fiddler, Byron Berline, and everyone favorite guitar player, singer, Jim Hurst.  This will be my fisrt time at this event and I am really excited about the trip.  My wife, Kitty Ledbetter, will be going with me.  She is a Francophile and it will be fun to be traveling with her.  Also I will get to spend time with one of France's foremost banjoist, Claude Rossat.  Claude was a student at South Plains College while I was on the facutly of the Creative Arts Department.  So good to see him again. contact Pauline Dumontet at La Grange Rouge, 03-85 75 85 81, lagrange.rouge@wanadoo.fr or Claude Rossat rossatclaude@wannado.fr

Lovington, NM is celebrating its founding with a series of concerts.  The Alan Munde Gazette is happy to be a part of this outdoor event.  It will be held on the courthouse square with the concert starting at 6:30 - picking happening during the day with an open mic.  Steve Smith in addition to playing in the Gazette will have his own band Hard Road there.  It will feature one of my heroes Wayne Shrubsall on banjo.  Come on out.  www.leacomuseum@leaco.net

Joe Carr and I played this fine venue several years ago, Steve Smith more recently.  The Alan Munde Gazette is looking forward to our first at this intimate venue.  Check out the web site www.goodfolk.org

Last year I played this wonderful event as a trio.  This year the whole Alan Munde Gazette will be on hand featuring music from our new CD "Made to Last" adding to the wonderful music making of the other groups.  It is held at the Hope Fair Park.  Check with Mark Keith of the Hope, Hempstead Co. Chamber of Commerce 870-77-3640 or Glenn Woodruff 501-655-1239.  Be there!

We always look forward to playing in New Mexico - great food, great scenery, great people - now great music at this new event.  The whole Alan Munde Gazette will be there with our high-powered sound for a wonderful weekend of music with other great bands.  contact David Morris 515-461-0457, 575-403-7558

I will be in concert with one of my banjo heroes Greg Cahill.  The concert will be at the beautiful Down Home Guitars store in Frankfort, Il.  Check out the web site for pictures of this wonderfully stocked acoustic music store.  Really looking forward to hearing Greg play -as I say one of my heroes.  www.downhomeguitars.com  815-469-6321

As part of my Midwest banjo workshop tour, I am stopping in Madison, Wi. for a mid-week event.  I have several new instructional books published through Mel Bay Publications.  The material in the books are the result of my many years teaching banjo as a member of the bluegrass faculty at South Plains College and contain all my best efforts at how bluegrass banjo is organized.  My workshops are a distillation of those years of teaching and the material in the books.  If you are in the area and can make it, I look forward to sharing these ideas with you. contact Carolyn Hegeler 608-238-6863.

I have been asked to be at the 2009 version of this now longstanding event.  This will be my fifth year and once again I am really looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends, both faculty and attendees.  Hope you can make it.  kenperlman@aol.com, www.midwestbanjocamp.com

The Alan Munde Gazette is really looking forward to the 5th Annual Skiatook Bluegrass Festival.  For me, an old Okie boy, it will be a home coming.  I have not played a major event in Oklahoma as a band leader for several years and am really looking forward to seeing a lot of old friends and making a bunch of new ones.  Be there if you possibly can, I want you to be a part of this coming home party.  Also featuring Robert Hale and Wildfire, Jeanette Williams Band, and many more TBA.  Thursday Night Gospel Show, Workshops, Bluegrass Karaoke, Arts and Crafts, Kid's Tent.  30 miles north of Tulsa. contact Larry Nunley, 918-261-3443.  www.skiatookbluegrass.com

One of the grandaddy's of music camps, this event is in its 23nd year. The camp features instruction in all the bluegrass band instruments plus vocals. The banjo faculty is composed of me; "Banjo for Dummies," author and fantastic player, Bill Evams; Mr. Acoustic Plus, Gerald Jones; and "Big Bandjo" herself, Beth Mead; Anne Luna running the children's camp; Dede Wyland conducting the vocal classes; Elliott Rogers, Dan Miller, Tim May on guitar; Nate Lee and Steve Smith, mandolin; Megan Lynch and Ed Marsh on fiddle; Bill Honker, bass; Steve Williams teaching Dobro. Check the web site for full details. www.campbluegrass.com

I will be in the Minneapolis area for a banjo workshop and concert at the Homestead Pickin' Parlor.  Joing me for the concert will be my fellow Okies; Adam Granger, singer, songwriter, guitarist without equal; and Dick Nunneley, "Mr. precision, taste, and wit" of the mandolin.  I cannot tell you the joy I feel when playing with these characters.  Both are featured on my latest solo CD "Old Bones."  Check out Adam and me doing "Old Bones' on www.Youtube.com.   contact Marv Menzel 612-861-3308.

Man, what a fantastic location overlooking Pugent Sound.  This is another killer workshop weekend put together by Ken Perlman along with Peter Langston.  Check out it out at www.americanbanjocamp.com.  contact kenperlman@aol.com

This always fun event is under the direction of master fiddler Byron Berline.  This will be the first appearance in several years of the whole of the Alan Munde Gazette.  We are all really looking forward to sharing in the wonderful music making this weekend.  Guthrie is a delightfully historic town and adds a cool presence to the event. www.oibf.com

Banjo players delight (it is mine) - Several of the faculty members of the Nash Camp Fall Banjo Retreat will be in performance at the historic Station Inn on 12th st. in Nashville.  This is a great kickoff to a banjo weekend.  If you are in town early, don't miss this treat.  www.stationinn.com

The 2008 event was so good with extra special guest J.D. Crow.  The director, Cindy Sinclair, is puting together and another great event for 2009 with Bill Emerson (I am really excited as Bill is one of my banjo heroes) along with regulars Bill Evans, Ned Luberecki, Charlie Cushman, and the leader of the pack Sonny Osborne.  www.nashcamp.com