Bluegrass band news

  • Terry Baucom ready to mash

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    Terry Baucom has announced that he will be leaving Dale Ann Bradley's band to focus on a number of other performing opportunities for 2010. He will continue to play banjo on the Mountain Heart with Tony Rice shows, and will also

  • Bankester Family video debut

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    The Bankester Family is one of 13 acts invited as an official showcase artist for next week's World Of Bluegrass in Nashville. To take full advantage of this opportunity, they have timed the release of their first music video for

  • Lovell Sisters on the Opry

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    This has been quite a summer for The Lovell Sisters, a group of young bluegrass siblings from Georgia. Their latest CD, Time To Grow, was released on their own label, 2 DefPig Records, and they had an eventful tour season. This Saturday

  • Jerry Butler & The Blu-Js

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    Jerry Butler has announced that he will be leaving Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road to focus on a solo career. The guitarist and lead singer, who also did a lengthy stint with Pine Mountain Railroad, has formed a new group,

  • Buster Sexton to Patent Pending

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    Patent Pending has announced that Buster Sexton has joined the band on banjo, a change necessitated by the sudden passing of founding member Jim Steptoe on August 30. Buster has worked with a number of popular bluegrass groups in Virginia, including

  • Checking in with Chris Pandolfi

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    I had a chance to speak with Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters today, and he caught me up on a couple of projects he is working on going into the Fall. The band is heading into the studio next

  • Corey Hensley to Quicksilver

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    Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver has a new member. Corey Hensley has come aboard singing tenor and playing guitar. Corey is a native West Virginian who has played and sung bluegrass and Gospel music since he was a young boy. He spent

  • G2 heading our way

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    G2, our favorite young Swedish bluegrass outfit, will also be heading west to the US later this month. They will perform at the Bluegrass Legends Concert Series in Chicago on 9/26, and then on the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour

  • Gibson Brothers superfan

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    How about this for a bluegrass fan? Any band would surely be honored to be memorialized in a fan's license plate, as were The Gibson Brothers by a big fan. Too bad the state of Virginia doesn't offer a banjo plate. If

  • Tina Adair – back with a new band

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    Tina Adair made quite a name for herself in bluegrass before many performers her age had played their first show. Her family band, The Adairs, won the 1996 Pizza Hut Bluegrass Showdown when Tina was 17 years old, and within