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Dear visitor, let me shortly guide you through these pages; click on the "Read more..." for short guidance.
This page started as a web page of my band Peter O. Ruby with all Bells & Whistles, therefore you can still find matters related to my band on the left menu (as long as you are in the main menu - "Home (the Band)").
However, as soon as you start examining the main top menu, you will find out that the band related menu will have disappeared, and that the pages are not only about my band, but also about all the other stuff representing bluegrass for you and me, and all that is related to it; and this is not all - I want to introduce here also a little bit of my other hobby, the fascinating things about the Celtic culture (mostly in the geographical area of middle Europe called Bohemia, today's Czech Republic).
The page was created in a fantastic software joomla! which gives me an excellent opportunity to present the information in several languages (at the moment you can read my page in English and Czech languages, all you need to do is click on the appropriate state flag
) and thus help to minimize the language barriere between the Czech and English speaking readers.
Therefore if you happen to have any interesting article that you wish to translate to the Czech language and you want to share it here with many non-English speaking bluegrass players and fans within the Czech and Slovak speaking area, please send it to me - I will be glad to translate and publish it here (of course subject to my available free time).
Following is a short guided tour of my pages:
Under the RSS news menu you will find syndicated news from various sources, in the Czech language mainly from a page, through which the Czech bluegrass really "lives and breathes", i.e. bgcz.net.
The English RSS news contain the well known Cybergrass, Gospel and Bluegrass blog.
The next part is the Forum - at the moment still waiting "in limbo" for its moment of crossing over the "critical mass" of readers, eventually topics for thought. Please leave us some sensible remark here!
In the Blog part, I'm trying to consistently translate the articles so they are available in both languages.
The following menu, named Bands, people around, contains the list of bands I am familiar with (at the moment only czech and Slovak ones), a list of various local and foreign bg. associations and communitites, links to pages related to musical instruction and pages of some Czech luthiers.
In the part named Bluegrass jams you can find links to bluegrass jams, related articles and various advice and "unwritten rules" of jam behaviour. I belive the jamming is one of the most vital parts of bluegrass, so I have linked our Prague jam "U Supa" with the "world jam map" (folkjam.org), which is able to show you all the regularly organized jams linked to that page. The authors of that page, Scott a Shawn, started the page in 2006 and to this day they managed to register the incredible sum of 600 jams (!!!) in the USA, 40 jams in the UK, 17 in Canada, 6 in Ireland, three in Australia, Germany and France (and we are still listed as the only ones east of Šumava!) 
- I believe it's a great job - well done Shawn and Scott!, and I hope that with the numbers they already have, they will remain the No. 1 world jam map forever.
The matters of interest are completed by my friends' internet picture albums - how many times you have experienced the situation that you got a link to an internet album from your friend, only to find out the next time you wanted to show it to someone that you forgot the link? Also, you might want your internet albums to be available to as many friends as possible, but you don't have your own web pages, or they are not widely known - so also to this my page intends to put a stop to.
The Celts, a topic "hiding" far right as a last top menu item, is dedicated to the topic of the amazing and obscure world of Central European Celtic population, and as the bluegrass has also sprung basically from the Irish music of the early American immigrants, I do not consider this topic to be so remote that it should not stay here.
I wish these pages could link your interests with mine, bluegrass with Celts and my band with the wider world of bluegrass and jams.
In the bottom menu bar, I have placed several peculiarities and interesting videos, and at the bottom right there is also a special menu with e.g. Mark Eben's interviews with Ricky Skaggs and Béla Fleck, picture taking at the oldest Czech (and European or out-of-the USA) bluegrass festival "Banjo Jamboree" etc.
Hey, do you guys and gals there in the US know that the Moravian Star came from our Moravian brethren? 
Well, although the star started perhaps as a geometry exercise , it's also connected to a long story about Moravian Church history, which started more than 500 years ago, but can still to this day bridge the distance between the USA and Moravia.
I hope my pages will have something to tell you and that you will enjoy them. If you like them, drop me a line in our Forum!
I wish you nice browsing through a blue grass.
Peter O. Ruby
