The accolades, awards and good news keep piling up for the sweethearts of bluegrass, Darin and Brooke Aldridge. Rounder Records announced today that it signed a deal with the award-winning husband and wife duo, who will release their first project for
Many times when bands take a break from the road they’re never heard from again. That’s not the case, fortunately, for Detour, the Michigan-based band that made a big splash before dropping off the road a couple of years ago
IBMA’s love affair with Raleigh continues. Crowds seem bigger this year. Exhibitors report brisk business – one merchant sold two high-end banjos in an hour. And there’s more jamming per square inch than I remember seeing in Nashville. In fact, it’s
IBMA Executive Director Paul Schiminger speaks at the 2018 Momentum Awards while Board Chair Joe Mullins and host Sierra Hull look on - photo © Frank Baker The Trailblazers and Mile Twelve scored double wins Thursday when IBMA presented the 2018 Momentum
Jamie Dailey’s keynote speech to open this year’s World of Bluegrass in Raleigh was the equivalent of mom urging you to ignore all the sumptuous entrees and desserts on the table and eat your vegetables. Playing music is fun, but bands
Daniel Pugh is one of the newest youngsters on the professional bluegrass circuit, joining the Kevin Prater Band on upright bass. The 17-year-old high school senior from Biscoe, NC, played a gig with the band in mid-August in Cambridge, Ohio. Prater
Award-winning songwriter Louisa Branscomb is stepping up to help musicians and music lovers in Southport, NC, a coastal town that was ravaged by Hurricane Florence. Branscomb got to know many area residents when her non-profit organization, ScreenDoor Songwriter Alliance, hosted an
Mark and Eileen Schatz Once again, the acoustic music community is coming together to help one of its own. A benefit concert for Eileen Carson Schatz will be held Sunday, September 16, at The Hamilton in Washington DC. Eileen learned in March
Unless you’ve been sleeping under a log since Bill Monroe last stepped on a stage, you know that Michael Cleveland is one of the best fiddle players to call bluegrass home. But if you weren’t at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival
Music has been part of her life for longer than 17-year-old Jaelee Roberts can remember. Her earliest memories are of being backstage at the Opry when dad Danny Roberts, mandolin player and founding member of the Grascals, played there. But even