Author: John Lawless

If I knew you were coming I'd have baked a cake. That was the name of a hit song back in the early '50s, and it looks like the folks at Mountain Home Music Company knew Sideline was coming for a

The battle over the proper boundaries of bluegrass rages on, and Lorraine Jordan adds her $.02 in the form of a new song, ably assisted by Junior Sisk and Danny Paisley on lead vocals with Carolina Road's Tommy Long, and

Snow Child, a new musical based on the book by Eowyn Ivey, is set to open April 26 at Arena Stage in Washington, DC. Set in the unforgiving wilderness of Alaska in the 1920s, the show's music draws heavily on the lively

Summer Brooke & Mountain Faith have announced the newest member of their touring group. Nate Burie is coming onboard to play mandolin in place of Cory Piatt, who is leaving after next weekend. Nate is from Milwaukee, where he had been

Ida Clare, from Louisville, KY, captured a lot of attention last year when they won the inaugural band contest at the 7th annual John Hartford Memorial Festival in Bean Blossom, IN. Now their debut, self-titled album is ready to go,

The Care For Cancer festival, hosted by Zink & Company, has moved to a new location for 2018. The event will still feature a Saturday filled with great New England bluegrass in western Massachusetts, but it has moved to The Stationery

Back during the SPBGMA convention in February, I had the chance to spend some time with Amanda Cook and her husband, Dennis. They proved to be charming dinner companions, as did their banjo player, Carolyne VanLierop. As I had previously lived in

Katelyn Ingardia, guitarist and lead singer with Backline Bluegrass, and her husband, Dominic, are celebrating the birth of their second child this week. Dakota Quinn Ingardia was born at 11:02 a.m. on April 3, at the Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, SC. She arrived

If you haven't been following the evolution of Mountain Heart closely this past few years, you might be surprised by their new look and sound. The group that started with bluegrass superheroes Steve Gulley, Adam Steffey, Jim VanCleve, and Barry

Following our article last week announcing that Rhonda Vincent would be performing the music from her upcoming Bluegrass Legends project at the Uncle Dave Macon Days Festival in July, we had a chance to talk with Rhonda about the live