Author: John Lawless

Old time icon Bruce Molsky and his Molsky's Mountain Drifters have shared a new music video of them performing Fiddler's Dream at The Old-Time Tiki Parlour in Los Angeles. In addition to Bruce on fiddle, the Drifters are Allison de Groot

Surely one of the most beloved characters in the bluegrass and old time scene in the Blue Ridge region this past 20 years was the late Bobby Martin, known at festivals, jams, and conventions as The Bluegrass Drummer. His was

Benton, IL is the site for another new bluegrass festival launching this year. The Wander Down Music Festival, hosted by Chicago's Way Down Wanderers, will occur October 13-15 at Camp Manitowa. A full-service campground, Manitowa will offer chef-prepared meals, a covered

Shelby Jewell, who founded The Bluegrass Kinsmen back in the early 1970s, passed away on June 17 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease. He was 80 years of age. The Kinsmen were launched in 1971 by Shelby and his brother, Ebby, who

The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC has announced its summer activities, which includes a number of special events for children and families. The Center houses an Earl Scruggs museum and is also dedicated to preserving the music and culture

This weekend's Jenny Brook Bluegrass festival in Tunbridge, VT is trying something interesting and new this year. They will be including Gary Reid's one man show, A Life of Sorrow, the Life and Times of Carter Stanley, as part of

Bluegrass singer, songwriter, and band leader Valerie Smith now has a new hat to wear. Radio programmer! Val has launched a new online bluegrass radio service called Bell Buckle Radio from her headquarters in Bell Buckle, TN. The 24/7 station is

For his whole career as a bluegrass entertainer, James King had devoted and very loyal fans who sang his praises. Much of that came from the way King inserted raw emotion into a song, but another part was from the

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the largest and primary campus of the 17 that make up the UNC system, is advertising now for a banjo instructor in their Music Department. This addition is part of their Bluegrass Initiative,

The Edgar Loudermilk Band featuring Jeff Autry has released a new music video for Dreaming Enough To Get Me By, one of the tracks on their current Pinecastle project, Georgia Maple. They shot on location at Tallulah Gorge in northeast Georgia