Author: John Curtis Goad

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Big Lick Bluegrass Festival in Oakboro, NC.  

One of my favorite things to do – something I like better than almost anything else – is to attend bluegrass festivals. The great performances, the jamming, the chance to catch up with friends I haven’t seen since the last

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Florida State Bluegrass Festival in Perry, FL.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on three big events going on in Ohio, Virginia, and South Carolina.  

Ohio-based band Nightflyer has named their second album Rail River & Road – a fitting name that neatly sums up the themes of the majority of the thirteen songs within. They sample from a number of popular bluegrass songwriters here,

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the Mountain View Bluegrass Festival in Arkansas.  

Being a bluegrass fan can be a curious thing. Some folks are born into it, listening to mom and dad play Flatt & Scruggs before they're even out of the hospital. Others sort of just fall into it – perhaps

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Bluegrass On The Beach festival in Lake Havasu, AZ.  

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a look at this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, previewing the DC Bluegrass Festival in Northern Virginia.  

Largely thanks to cheerful love songs like Corn, Lonely Ends Where Love Begins, and That’s Just Me Loving You, husband and wife duo Darin and Brooke Aldridge have become known as the “Sweethearts of Bluegrass.” While there are a few