Miscellaneous bluegrass news

The Nashville area home of Keith Bilbrey, former radio announcer at WSM and the Grand Ole Opry, was severely damaged by fire early this morning. Always a good friend to bluegrass music, he and his wife were barely able to

Josiah Tyree, banjo player with The Kody Norris Show, and Cassady Sibley, recently celebrated the one month anniversary of their marriage. The couple wed on May 16 at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Carthage, TN, Josiah's hometown, where they now reside. Though she

Grace Van’t Hof, banjo player with Chris Jones & The Night Drivers and Sinner Friends, was wed on Friday, June 11, to Aaron Jonah Lewis, fiddler with Lovestruck Balladeers and the Corn Potato String Band. Theirs was a small private ceremony

The Tennessee Department of Tourist Development unveiled four new historical markers this week, two of which honor heroes in the world of bluegrass music. Both Doyle Lawson and Barry Bales attended unveilings of their Tennessee Music Pathways markers in Kingsport

Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg, the husband and wife singing and songwriting team behind Nefesh Mountain, are celebrating the birth of their third child. Willow Zasloff Lindberg was born on June 10, making her entrance at 8 lbs 3 oz, stretching

Jimmy Martin's home in Hermitage, TN, where he lived for 40 years until the end of his life, was recently demolished. Many of his friends in Nashville will recall visiting him here, as will those who traveled to Hermitage to

Skip Cherryholmes, guitarist and vocalist with Sideline, and his wife, Stephanie, are celebrating the birth of their second child. Adeline Macie Cherryholmes was born yesterday afternoon (June 7) at 5:11 p.m. at UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina - the

Kimberly Dalton, Jeff Huss, Brian Dickel, and Mark Dalton of Huss & Dalton Jeff Huss, co-founder of the Huss & Dalton Guitar Company, has announced his retirement after more than 25 years building top flight steel string acoustic guitars in Virginia's

Jacob Greer of Sideline and Ally Hinson of the Hinson Girls were married on Saturday, May 22, at Smethport Baptist Church, in West Jefferson, NC. The church's pastor and Zack Arnold's dad, Phil Arnold, was officiants during their ceremony. The musical

Everyone knows that our bluegrass community is a close knit affair, and that's certainly true in southwestern Virginia as well as anywhere else. That goes a long way towards explaining how Zacrye Porter, a rising senior at Tunstall High School