Author: John Lawless

Go BT... it's your birthday! Today marks the one year anniversary of Bluegrass Today, and we wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported the site this past year. That includes our loyal readers, the advertisers who reach them

Here's ones for all the Apple fans out there. (Haters, keep it to yourself.) Our friends at Whynoceros, who developed the Barnyard Bluegrass app for iOS devices, showed up at the Apple store in Portland to entertain the folks in line to

The positive reports just keep on coming from Phil Leadbetter, now more than 18 months into treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells and lymphatic system. After finding little success with chemo and radiation therapy, Phil was recently

Talk about meeting cute... Today is the wedding day of Kelsi Robertson and Paul Harrigill, the mandolinist and banjoist respectively with Flatt Lonesome. The couple first met two years ago at IBMA when Paul was performing with a different group, and Kelsi

We had written previously about the The Porchlight Sessions, a documentary film project produced and directed by Anna Schwaber, that seeks to explain the music and the culture surrounding the bluegrass scene. More than two years in the making, the movie

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the recipients of their first Momentum Awards in advance of the industry's big week in Nashville. These awards are designed to honor artists and industry folks in the early stages of their careers. Though

There are a couple of new albums set to drop next Tuesday, while much of the bluegrass world (including Bluegrass Today) will be in Nashville for the IBMA's World of Bluegrass convention. We wanted to mention them today, lest they

John Lockaby launched Deep River Management with Laura Tate Ridge just a few weeks ago, and they already have a number of new acts signed to the agency. The company was formed to offer both artist representation and management services in-house, targeted

The Farm Hands Bluegrass Quartet have released their first concert DVD, recorded live at the historic Memorial Church in Dayton, OH earlier this year. Among these Farm Hands are Daryl Mosely on bass, Tim Graves on resonator guitar, Bennie Boling on banjo,

Held this past weekend was the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, host of the 41st running of the National Flatpicking Championship. The festival is much more than a contest, though, with multiple stages of entertainment running simultaneously with full bands,