Author: John Lawless

Big news this morning from Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers. Founding member, Mike Terry, has decided to leave the group after 14 years, and veteran bluegrass entertainer Jeff Parker has agreed to step in playing mandolin and sharing vocal

Georgia girl Angie Lynn Carter has been singing country and southern rock music for many years, but after recording a Gospel number last year, she has begun to dip her toe into bluegrass. Last year's Little Church on the Hill

Pinecastle Records has released a new music video from The Roe Family Singers, a clever and highly creative animated short drawn by Roe Family member Quillan Roe. The group consists primarily of Quillan and his wife, Kim, in Kirkwood Hollow, MN.

The five co-winners of the 2020 Steve Martin Banjo Prize were announced today by the FreshGrass Foundation, who had partnered earlier this year with Steve Martin to keep this award, which he initially conceived and funded, going forward into the

Mel Bay has announced the release of Banjo Picking Tunes - Fun Solos To Play, by Lluis Gomez. The book, which includes audio of the solos being played, contains 47 pieces in a variety of styles. It is best to think

Congratulations to Jasper Lorentzen, bass player with The Po' Ramblin' Boys, and his wife, Sofia, on the birth of their second child last week. Henry Lorentz Lorentzen was born on October 9 in Knoxville, TN. He made his entrance weighing in

A  umber of the bands who had been invited to showcase in the 2020 Bluegrass Ramble at World of Bluegrass, have begun to release clips from the video presentations they submitted to IBMA for their virtual convention. Even though they

Jim McCown, noted bluegrass banjo player, audio engineer, and old time fiddler, passed away suddenly on October 7 in Hardy, KY. He was 80 years of age. Bluegrass audiences first came to know Jim in the early 1970s through the band

The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced today the details for their 2020 Hall of Fame inductions, to be held online next week owing to COVID-19 restrictions. A bumper crop of banjo heavyweights in on tap to enter the

Norway's Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra has another single today from their upcoming album, Migrants, a new song written by vocalist Rebekka Nilsson and mandolinist Joakim Borgen. If you were watching the Bluegrass Ramble concerts during the virtual World of Bluegrass last month,