Author: Brance

Spring is in the air and all the bluegrass festivals are announcing finalized schedules for this festival season. The 42nd Annual Bill Monroe Memorial Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival is no exception. And this festival is a major one for traditional bluegrass

After winning a Grammy this year for The Bluegrass Diaries, Jim Lauderdale has once again tapped the multi-talented Randy Kohrs to produce his next bluegrass effort. Lauderdale is currently touring in support of his newest CD Honey Songs (a more-or-less country

Bluegrass legend Jesse McReynolds has benn hosting a live radio show on WHIN Radio 1010 AM in Gallatin, TN, for a while now. But, being a local radio station, the show was previously unavailable for those outside WHIN's broadcast area.

There is much uncertainty in the business of music these days. The continuing decline of CD sales, the steadily increasing, but not sufficiently so, sales of digital downloads, the continuation of illegal music downloads, and rising price of gas,

Destination festival RockyGrass, in Lyons, CO, has announced it's daily lineups for the 2008 festival. 2008 marks the 36th year of the RockyGrass festival. Bill Monroe himself is credited with the founding of the festival in 1973. The festival is

The Mashville Brigade may not be that familiar a name to most festival going bluegrass fans, but the individual members of the band should be. The Brigade is comprised of: Aaron McDaris (The Grascals) on banjo and harmony vocals; Darrell

Here's an interesting little episode for you. This comes from The Bowling Green News police blotter. These events took place last night at 3:53 AM on the campus of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. Campus police respond to a

My recent involvement with Bill Evans' Banjo In America program has me looking at banjo history a bit. So when I saw this news I thought it was worth sharing. The Univeristy of Flordia is hosting a five hour event tomorrow

Here's a new CD release from Rural Rhythm that we missed recently. Tim Hensley is a seasoned veteran of both the bluegrass and country music genres. Hensley has toured as a side man for Ricky Skaggs, Patty Loveless, and

We heard last week that bluegrass print magazine Bluegrass Now had made the decision to abandon the physical print format in favor of an online only distribution model. The magazine has been in print for 18 years, having begun in 1990.