Author: Richard Thompson

With gas prices making festival attendance more doubtful, for many, bluegrass on television perhaps becomes more attractive than hitherto. Recently, I was alerted to the appearance on Kentucky Educational Television's Jubilee stage of California's High Country, one of the West Coast's

The 2008 series of Bluegrass Nights At The Ryman begins this Thursday, June 26. The annual summer series of shows staged at the so-called mother church of country music, Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, will include appearances by Vince Gill, Earl Scruggs,

Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee continues its recruitment drive with the addition to the label's roster of The Whitetop Mountain Band from Whitetop, Virginia. The Whitetop Mountain Band is a family-based band from an area featuring the highest mountains of

Yesterday (Friday 6/13) I received a note from John Lilly, the editor of Goldenseal (the magazine of West Virginia traditional life) and multi-talented acoustic music performer, telling me about what's on West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage show this coming

Award-winning photo-journalist Stephanie P. Ledgin has announced that her entire photo exhibition, From Every Stage: Images of America's Roots Music, is for sale by auction. This once-in-a-lifetime, winner-takes-all auction will reap the winning bidder 40 select custom prints from

In November last year Jim Peva gave notice of the impending sale of the Bill Monroe Memorial Park and Campground, home of the famous Bean Blossom bluegrass festivals. More recently, he informed us of current plans. Following on from that comes

Folk singer, raconteur and activist Bruce Duncan 'Utah' Phillips, whose songs included tales of the state's working class and tragedies, passed away in his sleep at 11:30pm PDT on May 23, aged 73, ending a roughly ten year bout with

OK... so we're a little late, but we didn't want to let the month pass without a mention of this notable anniversary. The concept of May being Bluegrass Music Month is probably buried deep in the mind at the moment,

William David "D" Kilpatrick, a former record executive, Grand Ole Opry manager and founding member of the Country Music Association, died on Wednesday (May 21) at his home in Franklin, near Nashville, Tennessee. He was 88 years old and he

Earlier this week I happened to be talking to Jeanie Stanley, who reminded me that this holiday weekend she will be attending Dr. Ralph Stanley's 38th Annual Memorial Weekend Bluegrass Festival, which uncle Ralph holds every year in honor of