Bluegrass festival/concert news

Thanks to Bob Compere for this batch of photos from last weekend's Bloomin' Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cookoff in Farmer's Branch, TX, just north of Dallas.

Gold Heart is taking their family-style bluegrass to central Europe this month, visiting Austria and Germany on their travels. They have promised to send along a few reports as they go. This first comes from mandolinist and eldest sister Tori

The weekend of October 10th saw the first Newell Lodge bluegrass festival promoted by Ernie and Debi Evans. They are now working with Harvin Carter and his family to promote festivals on this site in Folkston, GA. This first effort was very

When the weather cools down in Shepherdsville, KY, things heat up on Friday nights at the Shepherdsville Music Barn. The Friday Night Bluegrass concert series starts on November 6 and runs straight through to mid-April. All shows are hosted by Gary

As we often remark, you can always count on bluegrass people to be the first in line whenever members of their community are in need. It's true again this week as North Carolina's Wood Family Tradition is preparing to perform this

Our article on October 7 about the establishment of the Remembering Miss Dixie Committee in Nashville prompted the folks at the Bill Monroe Museum at Bean Blossom to share a photo of the gift that Dixie Hall left to them

Virginia was a busy place for bluegrass pickers this past weekend. In addition to the Virginia Bluegrass Band Championship in Chesterfield, the first annual Scott Street Five String Finals were held during the Richmond Folk Festival. This new competition is especially for younger banjo

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Video is now available from the all-star Bill Keith banjo style summit held at this year's Grey Fox festival back in July. In light of Bill's induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame last night, here are the two videos shot

Take a mighty wind, lots of rain, dozens of bands and vendors and tens of thousands of music lovers in Raleigh for IBMA’s World of Bluegrass. What do you get? A really big bluegrass tent, a huge party and, perhaps, the