Author: Richard Thompson

Station Inn sound benefit

The management of the famous Nashville, Tennessee, bluegrass music venue, The Station Inn, is having a fund-raising concert. J T Gray,…

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Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation news

Rich Hersberger, the Secretary of the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation (BBJF), has announced that the fund raising efforts to help buy…

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Murphy’s Mandolin

Veteran bluegrass mandolin player Dewey Murphy has promised to donate his mandolin to the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM), in Owensboro,…

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IBMA Travelogue # 7

Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to…

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IBMA Travelogue #6

Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to…

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The Stanley Brothers 50 years ago

In the course of two days just over fifty years ago, the Stanley Brothers began an era that was to last…

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Confronting a decline in the economy

In an article entitled Panel offers survival tips for small businesses, Laura Copeland wrote recently in The Tennessean newspaper about the…

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Jan Johansson Benefit

Circle of Friends for Jan has announced that there will be a benefit for Jan Johansson, a Bill Monroe disciple and…

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Mountain Roads signs Johnny Williams

Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee, has announced the signing of Johnny Williams from Danville, Virginia. Williams is an award winning…

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Del’s New Year’s Eve party

With Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas still to come, tickets for Del McCoury’s New Year’s Eve have already gone on sale. McCoury…

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#1 Bluegrass Music Charts

Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music

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