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
The newest star on the bluegrass horizon is a 3 year old fiddler named Bodie Frankhouser. He's the son of Ryan Frankhouser, guitarist and bandleader for Remington Ryde based in Pennsylvania. Young Bodie comes by his bluegrass fascination naturally, having traveled
D'Addario is introducing two new products in their Ned Steinberger accessory line that should be of interest to bluegrass guitarists, both to be unveiled at the January NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. First up is a Cradle Capo of the sort
Jasper and Sofia Lorentzen welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world of bluegrass today. Jasper is known as the rambunctious “bobbleheaded” bass player of The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. Caspian Daniel Lorentzen was born at 5:12 a.m. on December 13, 2017
