One year ago, The Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin debuted The Long-Awaited Album at the IBMA’s World of Bluegrass festival. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the album! https://found.ee/SMSCR_BTS Continue reading

Banjo player extraordinaire Kristin Scott Benson is the 2018 recipient of the 9th annual Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. Kristin Scott Benson is the four-time International Bluegrass Music Association’s Banjo Player of the Year. She has been a member of the Grammy-nominated bluegrass band, The Grascals, since 2008. For more information about Kristin Scott Benson and the Prize, visit banjo.stevemartin.com. Continue reading

Here's a brand new video for "Always Will", a song from 'The Long-Awaited Album' with Steep Canyon Rangers. Click here to watch the video on YouTube. Martin Short and I will be performing with Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko in the Midwest and South later this month with stops in Green Bay, WI; Bloomington, IN; Ames, IA; Knoxville, TN; Memphis, TN; and Lawrence, KS. Continue reading

Here's a brand new video for "Promontory Point", a song from 'The Long-Awaited Album' with Steep Canyon Rangers. Click here to watch the video on YouTube. Like the "So Familiar" video, this video was also filmed at Mack Sennett Studios. If you're in California, Martin Short and I will be performing with The Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko in Livermore, Rancho Mirage and Temecula this week. We will be in Tucson, AZ on Sunday and Philadelphia and New York next week. Continue reading

Here’s a brand new video for “So Familiar”, a song from 'The Long-Awaited Album' with Steep Canyon Rangers. Click here to watch the full video on YouTube. This video was filmed at Mack Sennett Studios, a historic 102 year old studio in Silver Lake, CA. If you're in the mid-west this weekend, Steve Martin and Martin Short will be performing with The Steep Canyon Rangers and Jeff Babko tomorrow in Red Wing, MN; Saturday in Interlochen, MI; and Sunday at Ravinia in Highland Park, IL. Continue reading

Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life is now streaming on Netflix. Continue reading

Steve Martin. Martin Short. One night with your two favorite amigos. An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life premieres May 25 on Netflix. Continue reading

Steve Martin and Martin Short on Friendship and What’s Truly Funny The two comics kid, but they’ve been through ups and downs together. Their latest adventure is a Netflix special. By Bruce Fretts May 18, 2018 Click here to read the interview. Continue reading

Steve Martin and Martin Short's new Netflix special, "An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life," will premiere May 25th. Continue reading

The Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers video for “The Strangest Christmas Yet” is available at American Greetings to send as an ecard. Click here for details. Continue reading

"The Strangest Christmas Yet" "Santa Fe" "On The Water" The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, The Long-Awaited Album, is available now. Order the album at the Official Store Order the album at Amazon: CD | Vinyl Continue reading

The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, titled The Long-Awaited Album, featuring the new track "Caroline", is available now. Listen to "Caroline" here. Order the album at the Official Store Order the album at Amazon: CD | Vinyl Continue reading

Watch the video for the new track, "Caroline", from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers here: The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, titled The Long-Awaited Album, will be available September 22. Pre-order the album here. Continue reading

StarringAmy SchumerKeegan-Michael KeyLaura BenantiAlan Tudyk Directed by Jerry Zaks Previews begin Wednesday, November 1 at the Booth Theatre Opening Night set for Wednesday, November 29 Tickets are now on sale It’s a hot night in Ojai, California, and Corky (Amy Schumer) and her husband Norm (Alan Tudyk) are having another couple over for dinner. But Laura (Laura Benanti) and Gerald (Keegan-Michael Key) aren't looking for a casual evening of polite small talk with new friends. Eventually, the two couples find themselves in a marital free-fall matched in velocity and peril only by the smoldering space rocks tearing through the sky. Entertaining has never been more entertaining than in this “cosmic comedy from the master of the American absurd” (Variety).Visit meteoronbroadway.com for more info and tickets. Continue reading

The 2017 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass is Scott Vestal. Scott is an in demand session player around Nashville, and has his own recording studio, Digital Underground, where he engineers, produces, and plays on various projects including an award winning series of instrumental recordings for Pinecastle Records, and has worked with the likes of Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, David Lee Roth, John Jorgenson, Tim O’Brien, Jim Lauderdale, Rick Moranis, Shawn Camp, Ricky Skaggs, Pat Flynn, Jerry Douglas, John Cowan, Tony Rice, Vassar Clements, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson And Quicksilver, Livewire, Continental Divide, Donny and Marie Osmond, Chris Thile, Paul Craft, John Randall, SHeDAISY, Shawn Camp, Hank Williams III, Laura Love, Kenny Chesney, Ashton Shepherd, Jim Lauderdale, Del McCoury, Dierks Bentley, Dailey and Vincent, Daniel O’Donnell, Tommy Shaw, Joe Nichols, Billy Ray Cyrus, Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, John Oates, and many others. In addition to being an outstanding musician, Scott is also a composer, writing nine of the thirteen compositions on his first solo project, “In Pursuit Of Happiness”, and nine out of twelve on his latest release, “Millennia”. Along with his busy recording schedule Scott has been touring with Sam Bush for the past 10 years and has his own banjo company, Stealth Banjos, which he has designed and developed over the past 25 years. For more information about Scott Vestal and the Prize, visit banjo.stevemartin.com. Continue reading

The new album from Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers, titled The Long-Awaited Album, featuring the new track "Caroline", will be available September 22. Listen to "Caroline" here. Pre-order the album at Amazon: CD | Vinyl Continue reading

I'm told people are signing up in droves (a car made in the 30s) for my MasterClass in comedy. For the aspiring comedian, writer, or future world leader: Click here for more details. Continue reading

The 2016 recipient of the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass is Rhiannon Giddens. Rhiannon Giddens occupies a unique position in the world of banjo music, bridging contemporary and traditional forms and the cultures of three continents. Few musicians have done more to revitalize old-time sounds in the last decade. Drawing from blues, jazz, folk, hip-hop, traditional African, Celtic, and jug band music, she has brought tremendous vitality and artistry to her live and recorded performances. Her work as a solo artist and with the Carolina Chocolate Drops has highlighted the banjo’s history as an African and an African-American instrument, and resurrected black string band music for a new generation. Her musical career began with opera training at Oberlin College, then segued into Scottish and Celtic music, with a sideline in calling contra dances. In 2005, Giddens attended the Black Banjo Gathering at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, a conference dedicated to exploring the roots of banjo music. There, she met Dom Flemons and Justin Robinson, with whom she founded the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The three started making weekly trips to play and study with veteran fiddler Joe Thompson. Albums, touring, and widespread acclaim ensued, including a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album for Genuine Negro Jig in 2011. In recent years, she’s branched out into solo recording projects, including Tomorrow is My Turn, which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album in 2016. In addition to the contemporary five-string banjo, she has performed on gourd banjo, nineteenth-century minstrel banjo, and the three-stringed African akonting. She has emerged as a multi-instrumentalist who is passionate about bringing the sound and feel of old-time black string bands into the twenty-first century. Along the way, she has become a historian as well as a musician. For more information about Rhiannon Giddens, visit banjo.stevemartin.com. Continue reading

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell have won the Drama Desk Award for "Best Music" (Bright Star)! Bright Star is playing now at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. For ticket info, visit brightstarmusical.com Continue reading

Learn 3-finger and clawhammer style banjo parts for the musical, “Bright Star,” written by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell with the Bright Star banjo app. Available for free in the iTunes App Store. Click here for more details. Continue reading

Director Ang Lee brings his extraordinary vision to Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the widely-acclaimed, bestselling novel. The film, in theaters November 11, is told from the point of view of 19-year-old private Billy Lynn (newcomer Joe Alwyn) who, along with his fellow soldiers in Bravo Squad, becomes a hero after a harrowing Iraq battle and is brought home temporarily for a victory tour. Through flashbacks, culminating at the spectacular halftime show of the Thanksgiving Day football game, the film reveals what really happened to the squad – contrasting the realities of the war with America’s perceptions. The film also stars Kristen Stewart, Chris Tucker, Garrett Hedlund, with Vin Diesel, and Steve Martin. Lee used new technology, shooting at an ultra-high frame rate for the first time in film history, to create an immersive digital experience helping him dramatize war in a way never seen before. Continue reading

Bright Star wins Best Musical and Best Score from Outer Critics Circle! Bright Star is playing now at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. For ticket info, visit brightstarmusical.com Continue reading

Bright Star has been nominated for 5 Tony Awards: Best Musical, Best Actress, Best Book, Best Score, and Best Orchestrations. Bright Star is playing now at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. For ticket info, visit brightstarmusical.com Continue reading

A live song from Bright Star on the Today show! Continue reading

Bright Star has been nominated for 7 Outer Critics Circle awards including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Actress! Click here for the complete list of nominations. Bright Star is playing now at the Cort Theatre on Broadway. For ticket info, visit brightstarmusical.com Continue reading