Author: John Lawless

2009 was a big year for Del McCoury. He celebrated 50 years of performing in bluegrass music with a 5 disc box set, and he has another big milestone to mark on New Years Day. The 150th edition of McCoury's radio

Bobby Osborne will be starting out the new year with a new label and plans for two new CD releases. He has signed with Rural Rhythm Records and is already hard at work on his first release with the California-based record

Bluegrass mandolinists and long-time fans of traditional bluegrass music are well acquainted with David McLaughlin. He's been involved in several popular bands since he first started performing actively in the late 1970s, and has been responsible for clarifying how Monroe-based

Regular readers of Bluegrass Today know that one of my favorite web sites is The Bluegrass Intelligencer, brainchild of Crooked Still banjo wizard Greg Liszt. Its theme is "fake" bluegrass and acoustic music news, and the site is plainly hilarious,

Doyle Lawson, and his recently-reformulated edition of Quicksilver, are set to record a live concert video on January 15. This will be an all-Gospel project, with an expected release on DVD later in 2010 in celebration of Doyle's 30th Anniversary

WAMU's Bluegrass Country will be broadcasting live on New Year's Eve from The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. Starting at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night (EST), hosts Katy Daley and Lee Michael Demsey will be live on the air (and online) to emcee

We've written previously about the new American Roots Music Program at The Berklee College of Music in Boston, which got its official kickoff earlier this month. Mark O'Connor spent a week on campus conducting workshops, master classes and interacting with

J.D. Crowe & The New South has two new members to announce for 2010. Kyle Perkins has come aboard to fill the bass spot recently vacated by John Bowman (now playing fiddle with The Boxcars). Just 24 years old, Kyle had

We also heard this week from Cadillac Sky with a concise overview of the band's activities and accomplishments of late, and news of their individual activities in 2010 before they reassemble to tour in the spring. "On Dec. 3rd, it was

We posted last week with news about The Chapmans signing with Compass Records. At that time, we promised some more details on their next CD soon, and Jeremy Chapman has provided us with just that... "Grown Up (A Revisionist History) is