Author: John Lawless

We posted recently about the release of an audio CD with live recordings of the various showcase acts that performed at the 2005 European World of Bluegrass in The Netherlands this past May. At that time, there was no place online

We just received word from Jay Armsworthy that the 2005/2006 concert schedule for American Legion Post 238 in Hughsville, MD has been announced. They will have shows featuring Danny Paisley, Larry Sparks, Lost & Found, and The Virginia Ramblers, and

Sugar Hill has announced January 2006 as the release date for the next CD project from The Gibson Brothers. The new project, entitled Red Letter Day, is said to contain 15 songs, five written by Eric and Leigh Gibson, with

On Tuesday, Bela Fleck's Trio! (Bela, Stanley Clarke, Jean Luc Ponty) performed in Boston, and they also gave a free clinic for students at the Berklee College of Music in the afternoon. Berklee students were also admitted to the Tuesday

Well known banjo player, former Bluegrass Boy, and now successful autobiographer Butch Robins has joined the blogosphere. His new blog is called The Cyber-Journal of Joseph Calvin "Butch" Robins, and is subtitled "The Thoughts Of An Itinerant Banjo Player." Much

Ross Nickerson and Angie Sumpter are once again sponsoring a Caribbean Cruise in the dead of winter with several days of banjo and guitar instruction offered on the high seas. This one departs Galveston, TX on February 13, 2006 and

Bluegrass fans "of a certain age" will recall the time in the 1970s when Jerry Garcia, guitarist with the then-underground rock band, The Grateful Dead, was making the rounds performing bluegrass as banjoist with a band called Old & In

The following is a statement from Sammy Shelor, in which he comments on and responds to the many rumors that have been circulating about him and the future of Lonesome River Band. We have enabled commenting on this post

The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that James Monroe (son of Bill), will open a bluegrass music park in Franklin, KY in the spring of 2006. The site is just north of the KY/TN border, about 45 miles from Nashville.

While perhaps not as completely a bluegrass project as a few of her recent ones, the new Dolly Parton CD, Those Were The Days - officially released today - is said to "retain the bluegrass-inspired sound that earned her two