Two of the brightest young lights in bluegrass music, Molly Tuttle and Billy Strings, are among the nominees announced for awards from Folk Alliance International. The awards will be announced and presented during their 2024 conference in February. Tuttle's City of
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Lucketts School House in Virginia celebrates 50 years of bluegrass
Bluegrass lovers in northern Virginia quickly recognize "the old schoolhouse" as the Lucketts School, a school building turned community center in Lucketts, VA, which hosts bluegrass concerts throughout the year, mostly during the winter and spring months. This Saturday, January 20,
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USPS to issue bluegrass stamp in March
The United States Postal Service has announced a March 15, 2024 issue of a new commemorative forever stamp honoring the High Lonesome Sound of bluegrass music, and the instruments used to play it. Antonio Alcalá, an art director for USPS, designed
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Thompson introduces new D-EIS limited edition guitar
Preston Thompson Guitars in Sisters, OR has announced a very special new model, the D-EIS-PKT, built in limited numbers in honor of their late founder, and to mark the 10th anniversary of their facility in Oregon. Thompson, who passed away in
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What Took You So Long? from Eddie Lightner
Bluegrass mandolinist and songwriter Eddie Lightner has released a single from his upcoming album, The Notes of Life. It's one he wrote about the DelFest experience called What Took You So Long? Eddie tells us that DelFest, and the DelFest Academy
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Let It Burn drops for Kristy Cox
Billy Blue Records has a new single to start off the year for Kristy Cox, the title track from her upcoming album with the label, Let It Burn. It's a real barnburner of a track, written by her long-time producer Jerry
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WWGW – 24/7 bluegrass radio in Moultrie, GA
Did you know that southwestern Georgia had their own full time, all-bluegrass radio station? WWGW operates in Moultrie, GA on a low power signal at 102.5 MHz, broadcasting bluegrass and Americana music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Their
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Brown’s Ferry Blues video from Tony Trischka, with Billy Strings
Banjo master Tony Trischka is marking the 100th anniversary year of Earl Scruggs' birth with a new album in his honor. Entitled Earl Jam: A Tribute To Earl Scruggs, and expected later this spring from the new Down The Road
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Jacob Metz to Rhonda Vincent & The Rage
Oxford, Kansas native Jacob Metz has been named as the new reso-guitarist with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage. A 2021 graduate of the Bluegrass, Old Time and Roots Music program at ETSU, Jacob had until recently been playing both banjo and
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Just Let Me Know from The Grascals
Mountain Home Music has selected Just Let Me Know, a new song by Darren Nicholson and Charles Humphrey, as the next single from their upcoming album with The Grascals. Long time Grascals banjo picker Kristin Scott Benson says that they jumped