Bluegrass At Large

DC mandolin legend Akira Otsuka hosted a small picking party at his Maryland home on 30 December 2017. This is a traditional year end occurrence, however this time one of the guests was unaware of a surprise coming his way.

Hal Boyd has been a beloved member of the bluegrass community in east Tennessee for many years, and thanks to emergency surgery underway today, it looks like he'll be one for some years yet to come. He's the co-owner of Boyd's

The funeral services for John Ray "Curly” Seckler will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, January 1, at Spring Hill Funeral Home in Nashville.  Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in Goodlettsville, TN. The family will receive friends on

The Bluegrass Heritage Foundation is a volunteer organization in Texas which serves to promote and support bluegrass music in the state. They are also involved in the annual Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival & Chili Cook-Off each fall, and also manage a program to

With the loss of so many bluegrass artists over this Christmas, it's nice to have some good news to share. On Christmas day, Scott Napier, mandolinist with The Lost and Found and Assistant Professor at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional

Nashville's premier bluegrass power couple, Jenni Lyn Gardner and Kyle Tuttle, made it official just before Christmas when they eloped to be married near Gatlinburg, TN. Jenni Lyn is the mandolinist with Della Mae, and the leader of her own band,

Reecently, the folks at Saga Musical Instruments and an anonymous local donor arranged for a pair of Blueridge guitars to be given to students enrolled in the Bluegrass, Old Time & Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State University. Students

For the bluegrass collector, specifically the J.D. Crowe aficionado, there’s a new piece that would dwarf any other memorabilia with pride. Red Hill Cutlery of Radcliff, Kentucky has partnered with IBMA Hall of Famer, J.D. Crowe to release a limited pocket

Holly and Tim Shelton are celebrating the birth of Wyatt Elihu Shelton on Saturday, their second child. He came into the world on December 16 at 4:38 a.m., weighing in at 8.2 lbs and stretching out to 20.25'' long. Tim says that

Less than two weeks after announcing that they had been contracted to serve as talent buyer for the Rockingham County Fair in Harrisonburg, VA, Tennessee's Moonstruck Management has also struck a deal to do the same for the Washington County