Non-US bluegrass news

Next month, multi-talented multi-instrumentalist Sarah Jarosz will be making her first ever tour of the UK. The young Texas singer-songwriter released her second album, Follow Me Down, in May.  It was met with much acclaim in the UK music press, just

Finland's Jussi Syren and The Groundbreakers have released Shave And Haircut, their 7th album of traditional bluegrass, retro-Nordic style. As the cover art implies, Jussi and his merry band specialize in a style that reached it's zenith in the 1960s, drawing

Lilly Drumeva, surely among Bulgaria and eastern Europe's most prominent bluegrass/country artists, has created a retrospective video using images from her 15 years as a professional entertainer with her band, Lilly Of The West. Along with the photographs, the video offers

Once again, Jan de Mooy has sent along a terrific gallery of photos from the European World of Bluegrass, which took place in Voorthuizen, The Netherlands last week. Like its counterpart in the US, the International Bluegrass Music Association, EWOB

Sierra Hull is coming over to the UK to play a couple of showcase dates to help launch the UK release of her new album, Daybreak (Rounder 0658), due to become available in July. The record hit in the US in

We received a note on Monday from Richard Hawkins, who reports for both the Bluegrass Ireland Blog and the European Bluegrass Blog. He wanted to let us know about the terrific photo-essay he recently published, covering the 3rd annual Red Wine

Here's another update from Greg Cahill on the 2011 Special Consensus European tour. We only had 2 hours sleep when we were shuttled to the airport in Oslo to catch the plane to Copenhagen on Wednesday. We were on time (after

Here's an update from world traveler Greg Cahill and Special Consensus. Just a brief note to let everyone know we are having a great tour here in Europe. We played the Buhl Bluegrass Festival on May 14, then several dates in Germany

OK...  so there isn't a USSR anymore, and Donna Ulisse has never been and, therefore, can't return, but the Beatles reference was just too tasty to ignore. All that being said, Ulisse will travel from Nashville in July to headline at

Aussie bluegrass brothers Hamish and Lachlan Davidson spent the last week of April in the US, tracking for their next Davidson Brothers album Here To Stay. They were assisted by Mike Bubb on bass, Bryan Sutton on guitar, Randy Kohrs