Bluegrass Today Profiles

Pete Hicks is a California multi-instrumentalist who plays fiddle and mandolin and sings in bands in and around the Central Coast and Central Valley. He plays old-school traditional styles for bands such as the Central Valley Boys and Bean Creek,

As a follow-up to the Wooks' recent single and video, I chatted with co-founder CJ Cain about their upcoming album release, Flyin' High, dropping February 25 on their website and the usual streaming services. The Wooks have been described as a

Little Roy Lewis is 80 today!  Roy McArthur "Little Roy" Lewis Jr. was born and raised the youngest member of the bluegrass Gospel band, The Lewis Family, in Lincolnton, Georgia. He began playing the banjo at the age of six and

After 20 plus years of marriage, Kristin Scott Benson, award winning banjoist with The Grascals, and Wayne Benson, longtime mandolinist with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, have finally recorded some music together. The name they perform under is appropriately

France's Boom Ditty Band have invested an inordinate amount of time and expertise into their endeavors, and in the ten years since the group was founded, the results of that investment have clearly paid off. Banjo player Romain Luzet sums things

Some folks would say that Lindsay Craven has the best job imaginable. After all, as the Artist Relations Manager for MerleFest, she's the person responsible for booking the artists that play that fabled festival year after year. Still, while some

This year's SPBGMA Band Championship in Nashville may have been the first time a lot of folks had seen Carolina's Retro 78, but once they had won the competition all at the Sheraton Music City that weekend will surely remember

Béla Fleck took the Carnegie stage and brought that hallowed hall to a place I am sure it has never quite been before. Smiley, tie-dyed festivarians joined the bejeweled Manhattan proper to celebrate something undeniably near and dear to America's heart:

Tony Friel plays bluegrass on Donegal Bay Radio in northern Ireland. Known as the Bluegrass Boy, he hosts a weekly bluegrass internet radio show. The music lover stated, "My radio show goes out every Tuesday evening from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Ashlyn Smith, a 12-year-old flatpicker from Louisville, KY, participated in a tribute to Tony Rice last month on the Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour. The star-studded program featured such super pickers and singers such as Scott Vestal, John Cowan, Marty