Bluegrass At Large

We may very well be living in a golden age of flatpicks. Even though the most preferred material, shell from the Hawksbill tortoise, is becoming rarer all the time with international trade in their shells prohibited by law, a wealth

Recording King, a leading importer of Asian-made bluegrass instruments, has announced a complete upgrade of their most popular model, the RK-R20 Songster banjo. Selling for just under $600, this model has been a top choice for people starting out on the

February 21, 2019 was the day a tossed cigarette struck a blaze that burned a major historical part of noted bluegrass fiddler Byron Berline’s life. His beloved Double Stop Fiddle Shop and Concert Hall in Guthrie, OK had been destroyed

Michael Cleveland with Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021 - photo © Dave Hollender Having won just about every award open to him in the music business, Michael Cleveland has today been named a 2022 National Heritage Fellow by

2022 is going to be a big year for a man who left us much too soon, but left a musical legacy that will last for generations to come. Keith Whitley received the highest honor a country music singer can accomplish earlier

The popular Tunefox app for learning and improving your banjo, mandolin, or guitar playing has some major news. Not only has the innovative iOS app received major updates with added features and many new songs and arrangements in the library,

It's been said many times that we are living in a golden age of luthiery, with a good many exceptional stringed instruments being made all over the world. In bluegrass, we are quite fortunate to see small shop builders of

Deb Shuffler Corley, Jennie Shuffler Brittain and George Shuffler at Track Recorders - photo © Akira Otsuka Akira Otsuka has shared another of his galleries of archived photographs from the 1970s, this time of George Shuffler and his family recording at

Here is another gallery of archival photos taken by Akira Otsuka, this time during the recording sessions for Jimmy Arnold's Guitar album for Rebel Records. Arnold was a bluegrass musician of unusual virtuosity, who blazed like a supernova over a short-lived

Paul Brewster with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder at The Bijou Theater in Knoxville - photo by Dr. Teresa Ellis Veteran bluegrasser and high tenor singer Paul Brewster was recognized for his accomplishments in the bluegrass industry last Friday night (May