Greg and Janet Deering with Stan Werbin and Cynthia Bridge and Deering's 100,000th banjo. Deering Banjos and Elderly Instruments are working together to auction a very special instrument to benefit the IBMA Trust Fund. The fund was established in 1987 as a means
Good news for bluegrass lovers in central Colorado. The long-running Golden Music Festival, which has brought local and regional bluegrass sounds to Golden each year, will live on in the newly-launched GoldenGrass festival this June. It appears that the Golden Music
The latest release in the CMH Records' Pickin' On Series is Pickin’ On Nirvana: The Bluegrass Tribute, which features 11 grassified covers of songs initially recorded by the legendary Seattle grunge rockers. Alabama's Iron Horse cut this project in their Muscle
With banjoist Richard Ciferský's return to the Slovak Republic after a time in the US, he has created a touring duo with fiddler and vocalist Martin Burza. They have chosen to perform under the same name they had used in
A very special CD box set is coming in June that is sure to delight followers of Doc and Merle Watson. Though they have both passed on, their highly influential recordings are still enjoyed by fans and studied carefully by aspiring
Are you looking to learn to play the banjo, or studying it now in earnest, but have German as your primary language? Then Sebastian Schröder has the book for you! His newly-published Banjo Spielen!, which translates in English to Play Banjo!,
Last week the Washington Nationals invited US Navy Band Country Current to the ball park to take part in a Navy celebration day. Guitarist and vocalist Kenny Ray Horton sang the national anthem at the start of the game, and
Instrument collecting and bluegrass fandom seem to go hand in hand. So many of the people who follow the music also play it themselves, and over time even the most casual picker will end up with a handful of instruments
We all know the term red herring to mean a diversion or distraction; something to throw us off a scent. It's an old expression, often used in argument, to describe an attempt to deflect your attention. But it's also the name
Nashville-based Grasstime has released a first single from their upcoming debut, self-titled album. It's their version of the Gospel bluegrass classic, Cryin' Holy Unto The Lord, which like most cuts of this song this past 40 years, owes a great deal