Bluegrass At Large

Peter Rowan at the August 2017 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker If you've visited the Peter Rowan web site recently, you'll notice that all the dates he has booked for the early part of 2018 are marked as

Starting tomorrow, January 23, approximately two dozen instruments from the personal collection of Earl Scruggs will be offered for sale at Gruhn Guitars in Nashville. The various items include a number of open back banjos, several guitars, and an eye-popping

Bluegrass pickers are like most other string musicians. Sometimes we feel a bit overwhelmed by all the new items and accessories thrown our way. Try these strings for vintage tone! This capo - or pick, or strap, or bridge pin

If you attend bluegrass festivals in the central US, you may have seen The Lindsey Family on stage. The group features mom, dad, and some combination of their 11 children picking and singing bluegrass Gospel music. Their show is hard to

The tuner/capo combination seems to have hit its groove in the fretted instrument accessory market. A number of companies now offer them for sale, with a new, lower-priced version from Shenzhen Meideal Musical Instruments Co. in China may tempt a

Cory and Jett Piatt at The Old School Farm to Table in Nashville - photo by Carson Photography On January 6 in Nashville, Cory Piatt and Jeanette (Jett) Willis were married at the Old School Farm to Table restaurant. Cory is the

Back in 1997, Tom T. Hall released a song called Bill Monroe For Breakfast. Like so many of his compositions, it was a wistful look back at his own childhood, where he recalled listening to the music of Bill Monroe

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,

For many charitable folks, Goodwill is a place to donate old clothes and furniture that have gone out of style. For an anonymous donor in the Kansas City area, it was apparently a place to drop off a noteworthy fiddle

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.