• Songwriting Escape heading your way

    I didn't get to chat with Donna Ulisse this year at the World of Bluegrass as I often do, though she has recently shared some news with us about a venture she is launching in 2015. She is calling it Songwriting Escape, her name for

  • Crazy Night from Volume Five

    Mountain Fever Records has released a first single from Voices, the upcoming project from Volume Five, due to hit in January 2015. The song is Crazy Night, written by former member Jeff Partin, and marks quite a departure from common bluegrass

  • Noam and Aoife on tour

    Two of the most celebrated artists in the vicinity of bluegrass music - with two of the coolest names - Noam Pikelny and Aoife O'Donovan, are winding up a duo tour over the next week across the Midwest. To help promote

  • Huber introduces the Classic 58

    Huber Banjos, whose Truetone series has been patterned after vintage prewar instruments, has introduced a model styled after the classic Bow Tie banjo introduced when widespread production resumed after WWII. In this case, it's The Classic 58, what most connoisseurs view as the definitive

  • James King to require a liver transplant

    It looks like James King, one of the biggest hearted people in bluegrass music, is going to require help from his fans and friends to battle through his current health crisis. Over a brief hospitalization this past weekend in Roanoke, VA, he

  • Sparta to install Lester Flatt marker

    Sparta is the city in Central Tennessee closest to where bluegrass legend Lester Flatt was born in 1914. Located 95 miles east of Nashville, it remains a small southern town with a population of around 5,000 people, and they are plenty

  • WorldWideBluegrass.com goes dark

    After eight and a half years of broadcasting bluegrass 24/7 online, WorldWideBluegrass.com has ceased operation. General Manager Jeff DeFord tells us that they shut down effective November 1, and that most of their regular hosts are moving their shows over