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Greg Blake, guitarist and lead vocalist for Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, is using his time off while the band is idle this month to tour in Ireland. He is taking many of the pickers who helped him record his 2015 album,

Over the past decade, the biggest night in Italian bluegrass is the annual party thrown by Red Wine, billed simply as the Red Wine Bluegrass Party. It's a concert put on by the band in Genoa, with different special guests

Attention German bluegrass and old time music lovers! The 2017 edition of the Bluegrass Jamboree! package tour starts next week with 24 dates in Germany, Netherlands, and Austria leading up to Christmas week. Each year since 2009 Rainer Zellner has brought

Mile Twelve in front of Mount Ruapehu and Mount Ngauruhoe (cast as Mordor in Lord of the Rings) Following their star turn last month at IBMA's World Of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, NC, Mile Twelve headed off for a month-long tour

The Davidson Brothers have announced that Tom Kendall is the 2017 recipient of their Australian Bluegrass Scholarship. Founded in 2011, the annual award grants $1500 to a deserving young bluegrass artist living in Australia who either sings or plays the banjo,

Here's the final installment of the tour diary from Cia Cherryholmes and Stetson Adkisson, aka Songs Of The Fall, as they conclude their musical journey across eastern Europe. Cia shares a few words on this last leg of the trip,

Just got this note from Cia Cheryholmes who is performing in Europe now with her husband Stetson Adkisson and Songs Of The Fall. She shared a few words about their ongoing tour, along with another video shot by Richard Cifersky. We

One question we are asked most frequently is "what happened to those cute Cherryholmes kids who used to tour together with their parents?" Folks who follow bluegrass closely may already know that Molly, the youngest, now plays fiddle and sings with

This article is a contribution from Raymond W. McLain, Director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University. When Sarah Wood stepped up to the microphone in Qingdao, China and sang, In A Far Away Place, the resounding

Last week, Lorraine Jordan made the journey from her home in North Carolina, along with her band, to perform at the Ardara Bluegrass Festival held in Donegal in northwestern Ireland. There she did sets of her own material with Carolina