Author: John Lawless

Wow... It's a real Christmas bluegrass bonanza in 2010! Ir seems like every few days that a new single is released this holiday season from bluegrass artists. We joked a few weeks back that there may be a need for a

The nominees for the 53rd Grammy Awards were announced last night, with a number of bluegrass artists prominent on the list, even outside the bluegrass category. Dierks Bentley received a Best Country Album nomination for his Up On The Ridge CD,

Would you like to have bluegrass bad boys Mountain Heart over for an intimate house concert - just for you and a select group of family and friends? Well, if you live within a 75 mile radius of Nashville, the folks

A new video streaming service has recently launched in Boston. Concert Window was designed to offer live concerts, and is managed by Dan Gurney and Forrest O'Connor from The Hay Brigade, whose debut CD we profiled last month. They held their

The 1st of December is a day we will long remember in bluegrass music. It's the date in 1966 when Carter Stanley passed away at only 41 years of age, at a time when he and his partner, brother Ralph

We've waxed enthusiastic several times about The Boxcars here on Bluegrass Today, and the release of their debut, self-titled CD on Mountain Home Records gave us another opportunity to do so in September when the first single dropped, and again

Ohio's Jett's Creek is the latest bluegrass act to offer a Christmas single. Theirs is From My Broken Heart to You, a melancholy Christmas song of loss and loneliness. Does that make it the perfect bluegrass Christmas song? But seriously... The

OK... not from Tony directly. But his new banjo teaching site, The Tony Trischka School of Banjo, together with the good folks at Deering Banjos, are offering the chance to win a $1500 Deering gift certificate. The contest is open to

From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, Bluegrass Today will celebrate the life of Bill Monroe each day by sharing information about him and those people who are associated with his life and music career. This

Those cute little xtranormal bears have been employed to give voice to just about every imaginable topic under the sun. Using a clever text-to-speak interface on their site, anyone can create a video with two characters engaging in conversation. Extranormal user