• Bluegrass Gospel USA adds affiliates

    Bill Miller, host and producer of Bluegrass Gospel USA!, is pleased to announce several new affiliates for his weekly radio show. It is offered at no charge to commercial and non-commercial stations looking for non-denominational Gospel music programming. Miller has worked

  • Special C – Bluegrass In The Schools

    Fred Robbins has spent many years chronicling bluegrass music, as a photographer and audio recordist starting in the 1960s, and more recently as a videographer as well. He has had articles published in Bluegrass Unlimited and is an active member

  • Audie Blaylock – Cryin’ Heart Blues

    The new CD from Audie Blaylock and Redline, Cryin' Heart Blues, is set for a March 30 release on Rural Rhythm. We wrote last year during the IBMA convention about what an impressive showcase Audie and the boys delivered during their

  • Boxcars rolling down the track

    The bluegrass world has been abuzz since the end of 2009 when it was announced that Adam Steffey, Ron Stewart, Harold Nixon, Keith Garrett and John Bowman had assembled a new band. Billed as The Boxcars, the band has as of

  • Stolen Instrument Alert: lefty quartet

    We have been made aware of the theft of a number of left-handed instruments that may show up within the bluegrass community. In what may have come as an unpleasant surprise to the thief, all of the instruments taken were left-handed

  • Sierra Hull mandolin DVD from AcuTab

    AcuTab Publications has announced March 16 as the release date for their newest instructional DVD, Secrets Songs & Tunes by Sierra Hull. It offers four hours of insight and instruction from this young mandolin prodigy on two DVDs, with a

  • Lou Reid in the Spring BMP

    Lou and Christy Reid grace the cover of the March/April 2010 issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles. The lengthy interview with Lou covers his growing up with bluegrass, his first bands, his days with Doyle Lawson and Ricky Skaggs, and his

  • Northern Lights go out for good

    Northern Lights has been the premier progressive bluegrass band in northeastern Massachusetts for the past 35 years. Other than a brief hiatus from 1977-1982, the band has been the home for adventurous string musicians in the Boston area, often including