Author: Bill Warren

Justin Mason & Blue Night at the 2025 YeeHaw Music Festival (1/18/25) - photo © Bill Warren The 2025 edition of the YeeHaw Music Fest is now in the memory banks. Evans Media Source is growing this festival year over year. Newish

Larry Stephenson Band at the 2025 YeeHaw Music Fest (1/16/25) - photo © Bill Warren Evans Media Source's second festival of the year has kicked off in fine style. YeeHaw Music Fest is held at the Okeechobee Agri-center in Okeechobee, Florida.

Don Rigsby with Southern Legacy at the 2025 Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren This year's Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival was one for the books. It is not often that this old picture-taker is blown away by festival

Frank Poindexter honored at the 2025 Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The Jekyll Island Bluegrass Festival always kicks off the year's big bluegrass events. It is a great way to your new year. Sherry Boyd keeps all of

Jim Laprad, Dave Russell, Wendy Smith, and Matt Stoddard at the Masonic Hall in Madison Heights, MI Patty and Lare Williams of P. Williams Productions have put together a documentary outlining the career of Michigan bluegrass musician Wendy Smith. Wendy is

The Country Gentlemen Show at the 2024 Howlin' at the Moon Music Fest - photo © Bill Warren The 2024 edition of Howlin' at the Moon was a howlin' success! The festival has moved to the Howard Johnson Hotel and Conference

Tom Worley and Lorraine Jordan at Lorraine's Coffeehouse & Music (9/27/24) - photo © Bill Warren The week long IBMA World of Bluegrass is moving to Chattanooga next year, but that doesn’t mean that bluegrass is leaving the  Raleigh area. It

Dave Adkins at the 2024 Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 22nd Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival was one for the ages! Here are a few of the highlights: A proclamation from the Virginia legislature honoring the band's 30 years of

Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out at the 2024 Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The highlights of Thursday at the 22nd Nothin’ Fancy Festival included: Annabelle Smith singing You Are My Sunshine for daddy Kenny's birthday. Chris Sexton firing up

Nothin' Fancy at the 2024 Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 22nd Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival got underway Wednesday with a large and enthusiastic crowd. One of the first day's mainstays is the poker run. Chris Sexton and his