Wayne Erbsen has dedicated his whole professional life to playing, teaching, broadcasting, and writing about traditional mountain music. As a professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville, he has taught and performed old time and bluegrass music, hosted Country
Modern bluegrass heroes The Steeldrivers have always been heavy on the blues in their original music, going back to their days with founding member Chris Stapleton, who is now putting his bluesy sound into the country scene. Now they've gone all
DC bluegrass power couple Wally Hughes and Lisa Kay Howard-Hughes, known to many friends as Wallisa, have announced that they are leaving Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike after 11 years touring and recording with the group. Smith so enjoyed the band
Remedy Tree is a young bluegrass band from north Florida who have been turning heads all over the southeastern US this past few years with their fresh sound and strong original material. While their widespread prominence may be new, the
The Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Roots Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University, a part of the Appalachian Studies Department, is on the hunt for an Artist in Residence for the academic year starting in August 2025. ETSU boasts the oldest
The good people who have been running the Doc & Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest since 1998 are asking the wider bluegrass and old time music community for help getting things ready for their 2025 event, scheduled for July in Sugar
Michael Cleveland and Jason Carter have announced a March 14 release date for their duo album on Fiddleman Records, Carter & Cleveland, marking it with a new single courtesy of the great John Hartford. It's With A Vamp in the Middle,
Volume Five has announced two new members of their long-running bluegrass band, led by vocalist and fiddler Glen Harrell. Nick Keen has joined up on mandolin, and Wyatt Harman on bass, both experienced young bluegrass professionals who have been active
Lonesome River Band also has a new single to share, one that reaches back to an earlier time with the band, and a solo project boss man Sammy Shelor released, Leading Roll. Shelor says that the song kept popping up, so
Well, it looks we have the first trade of the 2025 bluegrass band season. The Country Gentlemen Show and Carson Peters & Iron Mountain have swapped bass players. Taylor Parks, the young bass man with the Gents Show is going to
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