• Friday and Saturday at Charlotte

    Friday dawned sunny and warm for an ideal bluegrass festival day at the 2016 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival in Charlotte, MI. A group of young siblings calling themselves Sugar Creek Bluegrass opened the show. They range in age from seven to

  • Songwriter’s Back Story – Wilma Walker

    This month’s Songwriter’s Back Story features the song Wilma Walker, written by husband and wife writing and recording duo, Donna Ulisse and Rick Stanley, recorded by the legendary Doyle Lawson and Quick Silver on their 2015 Mountain Home Music Company

  • Hard Cry Moon video from Donna Ulisse

    Hard Cry Moon is the name of bluegrass singer/songwriter Donna Ulisse's latest album, and her most recent video. It's an old-time country weeper written by Donna and her husband, Rick Stanley, about a long night of tears and heartbreak. This marks her

  • 2015 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival – Day 3

    The final day of the 2015 Charlotte Bluegrass Festival was kicked off by one of Michigan’s favorite bands, Out of the Blue. Donna Ulisse and the Poor Mountain Boys made their first appearance at the Charlotte festival. Donna’s heartfelt songs

  • Sweet Miss Dixie Deen

    Now that Dixie Hall has gone on to her reward, her many friends in and around Nashville feel less constrained about sharing the love and admiration they feel for her. While she was with us, Miss Dixie would have considered it "making

  • Donna Ulisse at IBMA

    Oops... In yesterday's post about Donna Ulisse's new songwriting weekends, I suggested that we didn't have a chance to speak with her during September's World of Bluegrass. But of course we did! She and David Morris had a nice chat

  • 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