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Doug McKelway and Frank Wakefield Doug McKelway is a good friend to Bluegrass Today, an experienced television newscaster, and a bluegrass banjo player. He was also a good friend to mandolin maestro Frank Wakefield, who died last week in New York.

The Purple Hulls at the 2024 Bluegrass Heritage Festival - photo © Nate Dalzell Thanks to Alan Tompkins, member of the Board of Directors of the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation in Dallas, TX, we have these photos from their 2024 Bluegrass Heritage

Russell Moore at the 2024 Toccoa Ritz Bluegrass Festival - photo © Brad Holbrooks Edgar Loudermilk shared a wealth of photos from his Toccoa Ritz Bluegrass Festival, held earlier this month in Georgia. They were taken by Brad Holbrooks of Brad's

This report on the new temporary exhibit at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, Jerry Garcia - A Bluegrass Journey, is a contribution from Steve Levine, a life long concert photographer and writer in Austin, TX. Nicknamed "Captain Trips,"

Keller Williams' Pettygrass at the 2024 Suwannee Spring Reunion - photo © Corey Johnson-Erday Corey Johnson-Erday with Tune Ridge Media spent a late March weekend in Live Oak, FL for the 2024 Suwannee Spring Reunion at the lovely Spirit of the

This report is a contribution from Tasker Fleming, host of the Front Porch Bluegrass Show which airs on WSPC (Albemarle, NC), WIZS (Henderson, NC), and WSVS (Crewe, VA), plus live streaming on Nextdoorradio.com. It celebrates the long history of WSVS

This article is a contributions from Bluegrass Canada, the bluegrass music association of Canada, and their quarterly magazine by the same name. Editor Mike Higgins has promised to send us regular updates from the scene up north, and assures us

This remembrance of Catalan banjo player Gabriel Ramírez is a contribution from his student and friend, Lluis Gomez, now the premiere banjo player in northeastern Spain. Noted Spanish banjoist Gabriel Ramírez, also known as Gabi or Gabe, has died following a

Missy Raines at Magnetic Sound Studios (2/21/24) - photo © Becky Johnson Becky Johnson, the original Mrs. Bluegrass, shared these photos from the visit from Missy Raines & Allegheny on February 21 to Magnetic Sound Studios in Durham, NC. The band

Sicard Hollow at The RINO in Kansas City (2/10/24) - photo © Allison Scavo This report is a contribution from Allison Scavo of Scavo's Photos. Sicard Hollow is an upbeat funk bluegrass band with dips into almost punk rock. The groovy bass