As for many events around the globe, 2022 marks a return for the bluegrass music festival in La Roche-sur-Foron, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. After two years of COVID restrictions the festival organizing committee met in early October 2021
Lockdown – remember that? - had many distressing effects. However, for some people it presented an opportunity to take on tasks that normal routine might not have permitted otherwise. For producer, teacher/performer, and researcher Bob Carlin, the pandemic allowed him to
Dubbed "The oldest Bluegrass Festival in Europe," the Czech bluegrass community will celebrate the 50th annual Banjo Jamboree festival later this this month - June 17-18, 2022 – in the town of Čáslav, about 70 km east of Prague. Headlining this
Kentucky mandolin player Nolan Faulkner passed away on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. He was 89 years old. He was a huge Monroe fan, but also studied Hungarian, gypsy, jazz, and early black blues music to make his style truly unique. Lee Nolan
On Friday (May 20, 2022) we posted a report about Danny Paisley and his announcement that he is suffering with throat cancer. During the weekend, Darby Brandli and a few other California Bluegrass Association members have launched a fund-raising campaign to
After a four-year hiatus, the European World of Bluegrass festival returns to the village of Voorthuizen in central Netherlands this month. The three-day European World of Bluegrass 2022 takes place from Thursday May 26 through to Saturday May 28 at a
One of the most influential bluegrass songwriters of his time, Randall Hylton was recently honored with induction into the Blue Ridge Music Hall Of Fame, based at the Wilkes Heritage Museum in Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Born in in southwest Virginia, he
Big Country Bluegrass bass player Tony King and his family need your thoughts and prayers. King has a rare form of cancer that effects blood/bone marrow, and he will need a bone marrow transplant that will require him to stay
Roland and Clarence White/Roland White and Diane Bouska - photo by Nicole Christianson Pioneer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Roland White, primarily a mandolin player with a career spanning over six decades, passed away on April 1, 2022, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Bobby Atkins, veteran banjo player and singerof roughly 60 years' experience playing bluegrass and country music, passed away on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at Gibson House Hospice Centre near Reidsville, North Carolina. He was 88 years old. Bobby Lee Atkins was born
