Bluegrass At Large

Local dignitaries and townspeople turned out last week in Mt. Airy, NC for the official dedication of The Easter Brothers mural painted downtown by Tim White. From their home base in Mt Airy, The Easter Brothers delighted bluegrass and Gospel

UN Ambassador Kelly Craft, Joe Craft, Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Dean Osborne, Scott Napier, Lauren Napier, and Natalie Tomlinson at the Derby Eve Party in Lexington hosted by the Crafts. The Kentucky School of Bluegrass and Traditional Music, located on the

Diligent readers of Bluegrass Today will recognize the name Troy Johnson, one half of Nebraska's Banjo Loco, who we profiled here some years back. Along with Matt Manning, the two perform on electrified banjo family instruments, with Johnson holding down

Excitement is brewing all over the US for the return of bluegrass festivals in 2021. After a forced absence last year, bands, fans, vendors, and promoters are eager to get back outside with the rest of us and hear bluegrass

Bluegrass has always depended on small businesses and entrepreneurs to keep the music playing. Most venues, festivals, or concerts where you hear it played are small businesses, as are the bands, record labels, and retailers that see it recorded and

When you're a legendary banjo player and have accumulated a whole room full of spare banjo parts over the years, what do you do? Well, if you're Sonny Osborne, you fool around and put them together until you have a

Another happy bluegrass union has occurred. Melody Williamson, lead vocalist and fiddler in her family's Nashville-based band, Williamson Branch, and Geoffrey Keyes, sound engineer with Morganton, NC's Blue Ridge Sound, were wed on April 11. The ceremony took place in

Whippoorwill Arts, an organization founded by Jim Nunally and Nell Robinson to foster opportunities for roots artists, has embarked on an ambitious campaign to survey roots musicians in the United States to discover their wants and needs for post-pandemic careers. Partnering

Josh Shilling of Mountain Heart has shared an update about his recovery after being in a scary ATV accident with his wife and daughter while on vacation last month. Fortunately, their daughter, Bella Kate, was not seriously affected physically, but

Last month we shared the news that Tim White, sign painter, radio host, and MC of PBS television series Song of the Mountains, was about to embark on another ambitious project. To wit, a large hand-painted mural of The Easter