Say hello to a new young bluegrass band from Nashville, Off The Rails, which consists of a number of strong pickers you might recognize. If you were at SPBGMA 2024 you already know about this bunch, who debuted there in
Author: John Lawless
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New faces this year in Backline
Two new members have come onboard for Backline, the contemporary bluegrass group from South Carolina based around the singing and songwriting of Katelyn Ingardia. Katelyn tells us that they had a couple of players leave over the winter. "Jacob Connor, our mandolinist,
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Runaway Traveler – new single from Chandler Beavers
Chandler Beavers - photo © Chelse Warren / OpenHeadTakesPhotos West Virginia mandolinist Chandler Beavers has a new single on offer, the first since his 2023 album, 4:09. Beavers works these days as a member of rockin' jamgrass band Alabaster Boxer, and with
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Bluegrass pickers needed for dinner show in Wisconsin
What happens if you take the sort of Hatfield and McCoys dinner theater show from Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, TN and move it to the upper midwest? Well, in the hands of David Fee, former proprietor of The Comedy Barn, Hatfield
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Fries Fiddlers’ Convention rises from the ashes
Wonderful news today from Fries, VA (pronounced freeze) about the long-running fiddlers' convention held in the town starting in 1965. It had been a major stop for bluegrass and old time players in the mid Atlantic region since that time,
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Henderson Hill – new video from Chris Jones
Mountain Home Music has a new single for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers, another from their current six-song EP, Pages In Your Hand. This time out it's one Chris wrote with Thomm Jutz called Henderson Hill, which is under a
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Ben James on Huckabee with the Oak Ridge Boys
Bluegrass vocalist Ben James, a newly-minted member of the Oak Ridge Boys, made his television debut with the world famous quartet last weekend on Huckabee. James, a former member of Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and Dailey & Vincent, had been pursuing
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IBMA congratulates 2024 Leadership Bluegrass graduates
The International Bluegrass Music Association has introduced the graduating class from their 2024 Leadership Bluegrass symposium. Each year, roughly two dozen people are selected in a competitive process to attend a seminar in Nashville, designed to build future leaders within the
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Hillary Klug and Evan Winsor celebrate their 1st anniversary
In talking recently with buck dancing fiddler Hillary Klug about her upcoming album (more on that soon), it came up that people didn't believe that she was married, as we hadn't published anything about it at Bluegrass Today. Well, she and
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Build Me An Ark from Caroline Owens
Fast rising bluegrass vocalist Caroline Owens has another new single to share from her upcoming project with Skyline Records, this time a new gospel number called Build Me An Ark. Written by noted bluegrass photographer Laci Mack, the song retells the