• RBW – RIP

    I am greatly saddened by the "retirement" of the RBW.  Having attended the event for the previous 5 years (I think that's right - 4 T-Shirts plus the first year I attended when the memento was a ballcap), I have

  • Podunk Just Around The Corner

    So with the first full weekend in August approaching that means so is the Podunk Bluegrass Festival in East Hartford, CT. It's a great festival with a big line-up. The park is a town park but once you

  • RBW – RIP

    After 7 years of offering 3 day multi-instrument bluegrass seminars, Roanoke Bluegrass Weekend is calling it quits. Jointly hosted since November of 2002 by mandolin legend Herschel Sizemore and our own John Lawless, RBW has fallen prey to the many

  • Grampa Doyle

    I guess that a new CD, a revamped stage band and a busy touring schedule won't be the highlight of Doyle Lawson's summer of '07. The news that has him occupied at present is the birth of his first grandchild, Spencer

  • Butch Baldassari health update

    We just received a note from Butch Baldassari, good friend to Bluegrass Today and anyone who loves bluegrass or mandolin music. Many of our readers may know that Butch, a prolific mandolin performer (Nashville Mandolin Ensemble), instructor and the head

  • Station Inn Trailer

    Bluegrass is traditionally know as a roots genre ... those roots are deep in the family values we cherish in this country and especially in the South. I loved the trailer but would not give a penny to an organization called

  • Melody King banjo introduced

    The Music Link has announced a new model in its Recording King banjo line. The Melody King is presented as the entry level model to their roster of professional quality banjos, with the same basic component quality as its more

  • Music of Coal

    Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields is a new two-CD box set released by the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth here in Virginia. The set contains 48 songs covering topics from coal mining history to union organization. The

  • Bluegrass Pictures

    I've just posted a set of pictures I've taken at bluegrass festivals during the past year or so on my blog at www.tedlehmann.blogspot.com. Enjoy them and let me know whether you'd like to see more of these sets. -