Bluegrass Today Profiles

We've all known Jason Barie for his fiddle work over the years, spending time with Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road, Larry Stephenson Band, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and now alongside Joe Mullins with the Radio Ramblers. He got started with the

Recent California Bluegrass Association Lifetime Member and Laurie Lewis right hand man, Tom Rozum, discusses his album, playing with Laurie, personal challenges, life in the California music scene, and much more. Playing multiple instruments, Tom is the perfect complement to Laurie's

This Stephen Mougin profile is a contribution from Kim Detwiller Burton with Team Strategies. Since moving to Nashville almost two decades ago, Stephen Mougin has written, tracked, and produced for countless artists within the bluegrass, Americana, and country music genres, as

It may seem like an unlikely connection at first, but the ties that bind Scandinavia to the birth of bluegrass are more common than most would think. Many of the settlers that originally arrived in Appalachia came from those nordic

There are a lot of places to find bluegrass in Nashville, but whenever anyone asks me where to go, one destination is always at the top of my list: The Station Inn. The little hole-in-the-wall club in the Gulch has been

We caught up with our good buddy Phil Leadbetter yesterday, master reso-guitarist, bandleader, and everyone's favorite Uncle Phil. He was resting at home after yet another hospital visit, this time for a second corneal transplant which he says seems to be

Midnight Skyracer has distinguished itself in several ways since the band first formed in 2017. Aside from the fact that this Anglo-Irish outfit is an all-female ensemble, they also earned the honor of being the first British act nominated for

With a name like “Gibson,” one might guess that this West Virginia teenager was a musician. Well, that would be correct! Gibson, a fourth generation musician, hammers the five string. The rising 9th grader explained his name. “My dad is friends

This detailed remembrance of the Father of Bluegrass is a contribution from Monte Warden. During the late 1980s, Warden got to know Bill Monroe while working twin bill shows with his band, The Wagoneers, who were an extremely popular "young

While looking for biographical info on Southern California mandolin player Nina Weisman, I ran across this from the Family Fiddle Camp, where she’s an instructor, and figured I could do no better than this. “Nina Weisman is a fixture in the