West coast banjo icon Bill Evans, and his wife, Babi, are not only collaborators in the ways of romance, they are also a pair of banjo pickers who share a simple life together in New Mexico. They have created a video
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Heart You Couldn’t Hold from Prairie Wildfire
Turnberry Records has released a new single from their upcoming album with Wyoming grassers, Prairie Wildfire. The group consists of three young singers, pickers, and songwriters with a surprisingly mature sound given that all three are in their teens. Sage Palser
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Darin & Brooke sing the anthem in Chapel Hill
While football fans came away impressed by former Steeldriver Chris Stapleton singing the national anthem at last night's Super Bowl, he wasn't the only bluegrass artist on sports television over the weekend. Saturday found Darin & Brooke Aldridge in Chapel Hill,
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Tony Rice Memorial Day Music Fest coming to Camp Springs
Cody Johnson, SPBGMA's newly-named Promoter of the Year, is adding a new festival to honor the legendary Tony Rice, at Camp Springs Blue Grass Park in North Carolina on Memorial Day weekend. Johnson said, "We are excited to announce that we
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On This Day #68 – Muleskinner Live
On this day … On February 13, 1973, Muleskinner - the first super group of bluegrass music - made its debut on what was the first nationally televised bluegrass music concert. The program was intended as a showcase for Bill Monroe and
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Love Train drops for Dale Ann Bradley
Pinecastle Records has a new single today for Dale Ann Bradley, the latest from their upcoming album with the six-time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year, Kentucky For Me. This is a new song, Love Train, written by Kim Fox, who
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Oldtone Roots Festival calls it quits
The Oldtone Roots Music Festival, held this past eight years in North Hillsdale, NY, has announced that the festival has come to an end. Their web site has been reconfigured to show nothing but an opening page with the following text: With
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Old Home Place – new single from Mo Pitney
Mo Pitney - photo © Jeremy Coward Mo Pitney? Isn't he a country guy? Well... yes, and yes. But he was a bluegrass guy first, or we should say, his love for bluegrass and traditional country developed simultaneously when he was a boy.
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Meet Doug Whitley from Hwy 40 Bluegrass
Doug Whitley and Lorraine Jordan Doug Whitley presents Hwy 40 Bluegrass each Tuesday afternoon on The Bluegrass Jamboree. He was born and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, and his radio career and love for music developed at an early age. "I was
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Sweet Forgotten Love from Jeremy Rilko
Jeremy Rilko has been involved on the bluegrass scene for a good many years. Starting out in Michigan where he grew up, and living now near Asheville, NC, Rilko has made bluegrass a big part of his life. His brother,