Though numerous countries across Europe are home to bluegrass musicians, the Czech Republic seems to be one of the most popular lately. Faculty members from East Tennessee State University recently released a documentary chronicling the bluegrass scene within the country,
On their Facebook page, recently formed San Francisco-based band Old Belle claims that even though they don’t hail from Kentucky’s coal country and weren’t formed during the folk boom of the 1960s, their music is still “unapologetically folk.” Judging from
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking this weekend's 2014 SPBGMA Convention in Nashville.
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Winter Village festival in snowy Ithaca, New York.
Although old-time music has recently experienced a surge in popularity, most of the groups who bill themselves as old-time are of the string band variety, with a focus on banjo and fiddle music. An instrument that’s often neglected in the
There’s quite an interesting progressive bluegrass scene in and around the Rocky Mountains these days, thanks in part to Planet Bluegrass and its festivals like Telluride and Rockygrass. One of the most recent bluegrass-tinged bands to emerge from the Colorado
Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the BayGrass BlueGrass festival in the Florida Keys.
Our Special Bluegrass Correspondent captured some images and video from the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center on January 11.
Over one thousand fans of the five-string gathered in Shelby, North Carolina on Saturday, January 11, 2014 to experience the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center. Despite pouring rain that moved several events that had been scheduled to take
Having performed with such acts as Randy Kohrs and the Expedition Show, Alex Hibbitts is no stranger to the bluegrass music scene. Although he has spent most of his bluegrass career as a sideman, and currently can most often be
