Author: John Lawless

With Labor Day coming up, it means that the Grand Master Fiddler Championship is just around the corner. Top fiddlers in bluegrass, old time, swing, Texas, and contest style will get together at the Turner Theater in Franklin, TN, just

This dropping two singles at a time thing looks like it's becoming a trend. But no one's complaining about more music! This time it's Nashville singer, songwriter, and banjo player Brenna MacMillan, who for the past several years had a band

Hosmer Mountain Boys at the 2024 Battlefield Bluegrass Festival - photo © Laura Nailor New England's Hosmer Mountain Boys had the chance this summer to perform in Old England, at the Battlefield Bluegrass Festival in Northampton, located in central England. The four

Bobby Hicks with a fiddle he bought from Birch Monroe - photo © Lincoln Hensley Fiddler Bobby Hicks, surely among the most celebrated and enduring musicians to ever play bluegrass music, has died from complications of heart disease. After suffering a

Mark Sanderford in his natural habitat - photo © Nancy Sluys This weekend during the 57th Annual Fries Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, VA-based photographer Mark Sanderford will be presented with the Fries Musical Heritage Award. The award is given by the Legends of

Bonfire Music Group has a second single from Irish-born singer and songwriter Áine Burns, taken from her upcoming debut project with the label. Produced by her husband, fellow native Irishmer and label mate, Danny Burns, it perfectly reflects their take

Cincinnati bluegrass vocalist, bandleader, and radio host Katie Laur died on August 3. For 27 years she had hosted Music From The Hills Of Home on WNKU, an NPR affiliate station broadcasting from Northern Kentucky University. She started at the station

Bluegrass singer Amanda Cook has so much new music, she's releasing it in pairs! Mountain Fever Records has not one, but two new singles in August for this Florida-born vocalist, now a transplanted Virginian. The label thought so much of Cook

Billy Blue Music has announced the promotion of Joe Dan Cornett to Director of Publishing for the company. He had previously served as head of Billy Blue Publishing. For the past two years he has been involved with the Daywind Music

Pinecastle Records has a new single this week for former child star Billy Gilman, who has returned to the bluegrass music he grew up hearing through his grandparents in Rhode Island. Only nine years old when Ray Benson of Asleep at