Author: John Lawless

Randall Deaton and Lonesome Day Records are making a big play in the bluegrass market, announcing a new partner and plans for a major expansion. And not just any partner. Jeff Carter, co-founder of cable advertising giant Viamedia, has purchased a

Folk Alliance International will include an instructional camp for instrumentalists as a part of its annual conference in 2014, hosted in Kansas City, MO next February 19-23. This will be a first for the organization, which supports and promotes all sorts

Billboard is reporting that Nickel Creek has recorded a new album, targeted for a Spring 2014 release on Nonesuch Records. The news came out as the trio featuring Chris Thile, Sara Watkins and Sean Watkins, reunited on Wednesday for a

Earlier this month Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby stopped by Yahoo Music to record a brief set of songs from their new live CD, Cluck Ol' Hen, with Kentucky Thunder, Ricky's band of red hot super-pickers, in tow. Here's their grassified version

Rob Ickes' 7th Annual ResoSummit convenes later this afternoon in Nashville, with more than 100 resonator slide guitarists from all over the world congregating to study with top practitioners of the instrument. With the start of festivities comes the announcement of this year's

So many bluegrass and acoustic artists have been using Kickstarter of late, seeking crowdsourced funding for new albums, that we can't post all the ones we sniff out online. But here is one of special merit that we hope you'll

Attention talented young string players... Applications for the 2014 Acoustic Music Seminar at the Savannah Music Festival must be turned in by December 1. The week long seminar runs from March 30-April 5 in Savannah, GA and is open to musicians

Irish grasser Niall Toner has released a music video for his mandolin instrumental, Burren Backstep, included on his current Pinecastle project, Onward & Upwards. It's a performance video of this simple but haunting tune, which Niall says came to him while relaxing in

Hunter Berry, fiddle player and larger-than-life personality with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, is set to record a live album on November 24, 2013 at The Carter Fold in Hiltons, VA. This special show will be staged at 3:00 p.m.

American Drive, who formed from the remaining members of the New South when J.D. Crowe retired at the end of 2012, has announced some personnel changes. Guitarist and vocalist Rickey Wasson and banjo picker Josh Hymer are leaving the group. Wasson wants