Author: David Morris

There are a lot of places to find bluegrass in Nashville, but whenever anyone asks me where to go, one destination is always at the top of my list: The Station Inn. The little hole-in-the-wall club in the Gulch has been

The newest performers inducted into IBMA’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame finally and definitively answered the big question in bluegrass. The question: Traditional or progressive? The answer, with today’s announcement of the pending induction of the Johnson Mountain Boys and New Grass Revival,

The bluegrass world, already reeling from cancelled festivals and delayed recording plans, suffered another blow today when IBMA announced that the World of Bluegrass business conference and music festival would not be held in-person this fall in Raleigh because of

C.F. Martin and Co. is back in business. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf lifted stay-at-home orders for the entire state, effective Friday. That means nearly all businesses can operate, with some restrictions, in all 67 counties. Northampton County, where the iconic guitar

It looks like C.F. Martin and Co. will soon resume making its iconic guitars at its Nazareth, PA, factory.  Manufacturing, shipping, and repair operations came to a halt on March 19, when Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, ordered all non-essential business

John Prine didn’t play bluegrass, but he loved bluegrass music and influenced a generation of bluegrass songwriters and artists, and he indirectly guided one well known artist through a scary medical condition that left her career at risk. So the feeling

The bluegrass world, his former firefighting colleagues, and thousand of local athletes are mourning the passing of Frank Jurney, who died Saturday after a long illness. He was 79. Frank was one of those guys who became a great friend the

IBMA has announced that the first day to purchase tickets and obtain hotel rooms for World of Bluegrass 2020 in Raleigh has been delayed from April 7 until an unspecified date in early summer. The move had been expected because

Help is on the way for musicians and other Americans feeling an economic pinch from the coronavirus and its negative impact on jobs and the economy. Congressional leaders from both parties approved a $2 trillion stimulus package, which includes payments to

The White House and Congress are negotiating the details of emergency aid that will likely include money for musicians and others who participate in the so-called gig economy. President Trump said this afternoon that the size of checks mailed to Americans