Author: John Lawless

Molly Tuttle has been chosen as a presenter for the 2024 Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on February 4. She has performed this service in the past, and must have done well as they have asked her back. The Premiere Ceremony is

Talented South Carolina bluegrass singer and songwriter Katelyn Ingardia, lead vocalist for Backline, has released a new single today from her solo project, one she wrote with Louis Hughes called Silence. The song is about the big empty space in your

Andy Thorn, banjo man with Leftover Salmon, has written a song that serves as the band's next single, and as the theme of their current tour, which is billed as the 2024 Ski Tour. The tune is called Powder Day, with

15 year old Ranelle Dietrich, mandolinist with her family band, Arizona Wildflowers, has plans for the best 16th birthday party a young bluegrass musician could imagine. She is scheduled to make her Grand Ole Opry debut that day, August 31

Bluegrass fans always love a good sad song, and what could be more morose than a shipwreck in the freezing waters off Alaska's coast? That is the subject of The Scandies Rose, the second single from Daniel Crabtree's just-released album, Storms

Young, all-female group Prairie Wildfire from Wyoming is morphing into a new formation, with mandolinist and vocalist Sage Palser at the helm. They will go forward as Sage and Prairie Wildfire with new personnel, as Palser's previous bandmates, Tessa Taylor

If you've followed any news today you've probably seen or heard that veteran CBS television broadcaster Charles Osgood died yesterday at 91 years of age. The effusive praise being shared in response is thoroughly deserved, as Osgood was a welcome

Stephen Burwell, fiddler with Authentic Unlimited, is celebrating more than just a new single this week. He and his wife, Haley, are overjoyed to welcome their first child, a baby girl named Lydia. Lydia Marie Burwell was born on January 18

The IBMA Foundation wants to remind everyone that the application deadline for their 2024 Arnold Shultz Fund grants in January 31. The Fund, named for early Bill Monroe mentor Arnold Shultz, exists to increase participation in bluegrass music by people of

California guitarist Ethan Sherman has a new album, Passages, set for release in March with eight of his new instrumental compositions. Today we get to hear the first taste of the music in a rollicking blugrass tune called The Glendale