The Bluegrass Heritage Foundation has announced the launch of a new contest festival in Kernersville, NC with the winners pre-registered for the Walnut Valley National Championship competition in Winfield, KS. Billed as the North Carolina State Championships for banjo, mandolin, and
Kimberly Dalton, Jeff Huss, Brian Dickel, and Mark Dalton of Huss & Dalton Jeff Huss, co-founder of the Huss & Dalton Guitar Company, has announced his retirement after more than 25 years building top flight steel string acoustic guitars in Virginia's
With a new single from Lonesome River Band due tomorrow (June 4), Mountain Home Music has agreed to give our readers a sneak peek one day early. It's a new song called Cumberland River Shore, written as a tribute to the
Richie Dotson, noted luthier and banjo craftsman with Acoustic Box, near Richmond, VA, has introduced a set of handcrafted, vintage-style fingerpicks designed to be perfect reproductions of the highly prized National fingerpicks made prior to World War II. Small batch
Mountain Home Music has released a debut single from their first album with young banjo picker Tray Wellington. A 2021 graduate of the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University, Tray is poised to launch a career as both a
Nothin' Fancy has announced the addition of a new band member. Jake Lauzon has joined the group on guitar, giving them the opportunity to declare themselves to be an international outfit! Jake is a native of Markham, Ontario and grew up
Salmon Lake Park in Grapeland, TX, site of the popular Salmon Lake Park Bluegrass Festival, was severely damaged yesterday when the Salmon Lake dam burst following a period of high rain on Monday night. The National Weather Service has estimated
Corey Zink at the 2019 Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival - photo © Susie Neel Sound Biscuit Productions has released a debut single from their first project with Corey Zink, a popular New England bluegrass artist recently relocated to east Tennessee. Zink is
Everyone knows that our bluegrass community is a close knit affair, and that's certainly true in southwestern Virginia as well as anywhere else. That goes a long way towards explaining how Zacrye Porter, a rising senior at Tunstall High School
Becky Buller has announced two new members of her touring group, unsurprisingly named The Becky Buller Band. Regular readers will recall that she lost two bandmates late in 2020, when guitarist Dan Boner left to focus on his responsibilities as
