Author: John Lawless

We got a note recently from Aaron Kilmer, sound tech with West Virginia's Stoney Creek. He shared a story about Darrell Sanders, the band's banjo picker, and his reunion earlier this month with Larry Stephenson with whom he had performed in

We just received this information from the publicists for Charlie Daniels, fiddler, country rocker and major friend to bluegrass music. Legendary recording artist Charlie Daniels suffered a mild stroke while snowmobiling in Colorado on Friday, Jan. 15th. He was treated

South Plains College in Levelland, TX has announced that Jim Moratto has joined their bluegrass faculty as an Instructor in Commercial Music. South Plains offers an associate degree in the Commercial Music program, which includes a specialty in bluegrass music. Bluegrass

Homespun Tapes has released a new banjo DVD from Pete Wernick, aka, Dr Banjo. Following up on his How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos video, the new project is How to Make Up Your Own Banjo Solos 2. The

The Bristol Herald Courier, which covers Bristol Tennessee and Virginia, plus the nearby cities of Johnson City and Jonesborough, TN, had a piece last Monday about the changing of the guard at East Tennessee State University's Bluegrass, Old Time &

Darol Anger, who first came to the attention of the bluegrass and acoustic music worlds through his work on fiddle with the original David Grisman Quintet, has been named as an associate professor at the Berklee School of Music. Since his

The New River is legendary in bluegrass and old time music, primarily through the song New River Train. The river actually flows quite near where I live, and I cross over it regularly traveling south on I-81 from Roanoke -

The January/February 2010 issue of Bluegrass Music Profiles is on newstands now, with Larry Stephenson's smiling face on the cover. Larry speaks about his career in bluegrass as he contemplates the release of his 20th Anniversary CD in a lengthy interview,

Darin & Brooke Aldridge will be featured guests on Sunday's (1/17) edition of Stained Glass Bluegrass on WAMU's Bluegrass Country. The show airs from 6:00-10:00 a.m. each Sunday morning. This week's focus will be on Darin and Brooke's new, self-titled CD

Over the past few years, bluegrass and independent labels have been adopting a policy long employed by the mainstream record companies of not releasing new titles in the latter parts of each year. They correctly presume that media folks are