The Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, who have hosted the annual Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival since 1972, have recently donated their entire collection of audio recordings to the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee
Billy Blue Records has released today the first single from their upcoming songwriter project with Rick Lang, Gonna Sing, Gonna Shout. Lang has created a number of successful bluegrass Gospel albums where he tasks top singers in the business with interpreting
As he has the previous nine years, Rainer Zellner will again bring top acts from the US to Germany this fall as part of his three-week Bluegrass Jamboree. It's an old fashioned package show that travels from city to city, bringing
John Felty, Shannon Whitworth, and Woody Platt (with son, Rivers) present a check for $100,000 to Candice Walsh, Meredith Baldridge, and Parker Platt with the Cindy Platt Boys & Girls Club of Transylvania County The Steep Canyon Rangers are delighted to report that
Rachel Baiman, a Nashville-based fiddler and singer/songwriter, has a new album coming, Thanksgiving, an EP to celebrate the fall of the year. The material crosses from folk to old time and country, but she asked if we might highlight this bluegrass
Stuart Duncan and Noam Pikelny at ROMP 2014 - photo by Jenny Sevcick Fans of banjo and fiddle music will remember when Noam Pikelny and Stuart Duncan toured the US as a duo in 2014. These two masters of their instruments
Family and friends of popular Memphis musician Tommy Burroughs have set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to help with his medical expenses. He has played mandolin, guitar, and fiddle in a number of west Tennessee bands and is well
David Benedict, mandolinist with Mile Twelve, continues to tease us with tracks from his upcoming album, The Golden Angle, ahead of its October 26 release. The record is a compendium of contemporary mandolin music, all composed by Benedict, that includes
Flatt Lonesome has surely been among the most influential and entertaining bluegrass acts of the past decade. From their debut performance at SPBGMA in 2011, this talented group based around the Robertson siblings from Florida, have won raves for their
Long time readers will remember a fun story from last December about a wedding proposal at a Steep Canyon Rangers concert in Roanoke, VA. Jacob Harbour, bass player with Rich In Tradition, had convinced the Steeps to let him come