Author: John Lawless

While most of us were spending New Year's Eve with family and friends, or maybe taking in a concert or jamming with friends, Steve Thomas, noted Nashville sideman and one half of bluegrass duo Newton & Thomas, spent his in

The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet have announced their newest member. Alabamian Jesse Turner has stepped into the guitar spot recently vacated by Kevin Williamson, who left the group to develop his family band. Turner is an experienced sideman and session player, who

Forget about Newtown... let's talk new baby! Jr Williams and Kati Penn-Williams celebrated the birth of a daughter on New Year's Eve. Jessi Leigh Harper Williams was born yesterday morning, weighing in at 6 lbs and 4 oz. Jr.'s first reaction was a

We're all seeing year end lists of every sort this week. We have a few of our own. Maybe at the end of 2014 we can publish a Top 10 list of Top 10 lists. Most of these represent the subjective

On top of dealing with a new baby, Colorado banjo player Jayme Stone has an ambitious new project for next year. Called The Lomax Project, this collaboration of traditional string musicians will travel and record in 2014 in honor of American

We just got a good news/bad news update from Terry Pinkham. She and her husband, Jeff, are managing the grass-roots effort to raise money to assist Tony Rice with living expenses while he is trying to recover his voice, and

New year, new job? Folk Alliance International is on the hunt for a new Executive Director. Based in Kansas City, MO, Folk Alliance can be thought of as the folk music analog to the International Bluegrass Music Association. They are a membership

Sorry girls...  and guys! Mandolin master Chris Thile has married actress Claire Coffee. They were wed in a small private ceremony at Blackberry Farm in East Tennessee on December 23. Chris is the driving force behind Punch Brothers, and widely-regarded as among

The IBMA will be hosting a webinar next month for vocalists interested in the anatomy and physiology of the human voice. How to Make Your Voice Last a Lifetime will be hosted by Leda Scearce, voice rehabilitation specialist at the Duke Voice Care

Canadian banjo player Jayme Stone, and his wife Laura, celebrated the arrival of an early Christmas gift last week. Their son, Cassian Elijah Stone, was born on December 20th at their home in Toronto. All are doing well, and Cassian's older sister