Miscellaneous bluegrass news

Jesse McReynolds gives a thumbs up while checking Facebook from the hospital - photo by Joy McReynolds Bluegrass mandolin icon Jesse McReynolds is resting at home after having to spend several days last week at the hospital. His wife, Joy, says

On Saturday, September 8, Justin Harrison, who plays mandolin and fiddle with Nu-Blu, was wed to Morgan Alexis Loreále Rice. The ceremony was held at the Yankee Hall Plantation in Greenville, NC and was attended by family and friends of the

A medical fund has been established for the benefit of James Schlender, who bluegrass fans know as the fiddler with Songs From The Road Band. James had to undergo valve replacement surgery today to repair a leak in his heart, resulting from

Adam Haynes' Scotty Stoneman fiddle, after restoration was completed - photo by RJ Storm Some of the most popular articles we have published in recent years have been about older instruments and the bluegrass artists who have owned them. With a

Scott Napier and Lauren Price - photo by Megan Sweeting Over the Labor Day weekend, there was a beautiful bluegrass wedding in Kentucky. Lauren Price, the mandolin playing half of The Price Sisters, was married to Scott Napier, mandolinist with Lost and

When County Sales announced their dissolution late last year, a collective sigh went up within the bluegrass and old time music community. The venerable mail order business based in Floyd, VA had supplied first LPs, then tapes, and finally compact

Those who knew the late Chuck Stearman, founder and long time proprietor of SPBGMA (Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America), will know that in addition to bluegrass music, he had a passion for vintage and antique signage.

Galaxy Audio from Wichita, KS, a longtime and valued sponsor here at Bluegrass Today who manufacture and market high quality sound gear for working musicians, has demonstrated a further commitment to the bluegrass world through a new endorsement agreement with

Matt and DeAnna Efaw, guitarist and fiddler respectively with Matt Efaw & Rural Free Delivery, are celebrating the birth of their first child. James Franklin Allen Efaw was born on Sunday, August 12, at 12:18 a.m. at the Medical Center in Beaver,

Celeste, Henry, and Britt Sheffield - photo by Christina Houston Britt Sheffield, bass player with Breaking Grass, and his wife Celeste, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Henry Alexander Sheffield was born on Thursday, August 2, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in