The venerable MerleFest, held in April each year in Wilkesboro, NC, is set to celebrate two meaningful anniversaries at the 2023 festival. First off, this will be the 35th annual MerleFest, and this year marks what would have been the
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Win an Arnold Shultz banjo from Pisgah Banjos
This February the Pisgah Banjo Company is again holding a raffle for a very special custom banjo to benefit the IBMA Foundation's Arnold Shultz Fund in honor of Black History Month. The banjo is an open back model made from highly-figured
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Stringdusters do Flatt & Scruggs with I’d Rather Be Alone
The Infamous Stringdusters have another concept album on tap, a second tribute to the founders of bluegrass music. Following an earlier appreciation for Bill Monroe in 2021, this time it's A Tribute To Flatt & Scruggs, a six song EP
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Bluegrass Beyond Borders: Bononia Grass plays with an Italian flavor
Granted, Italy may have three mountain ranges within their borders — the Alps, the Apennines and the Dolomites — but even so, they have little in common with the Appalachians, the origination place of traditional bluegrass. Nevertheless, the band that
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Glory Train from Bobby Giles & Texas Gales
Bell Buckle Records has a new single for Texas bluegrass singer and songwriter, Bobby Giles, and his band, Texas Gales. It's a new gospel number he wrote called Glory Train, which he based on the message found in second Corithians, verses
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Rosta Capek presents… a great anniversary concert in Prague!
Prague-based banjo and mandolin builder, Rosťa Čapek, is having a double celebration in the spring - his 55th birthday, and the fifth wedding anniversary of what his wife, Iva, describes as "our Big Bluegrass Wedding." To mark these occasions, he
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Lonesome – Hillbilly Fever
Hillbilly Fever is a band I first became acquainted with during my brief career as a booking agent. When I began a working relationship with the group, they were in the early stages of their journey, figuring out who they
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Deeper in Love – new single from Carley Arrowood
North Carolina bluegrass singer and fiddler Carley Arrowood is back with a tease from her upcoming second album with Mountain Home Music. This first single is a swift moving grasser called Deeper in Love, a positive look at romance when you
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From The Side of the Road… It’s the law! (part 2)
Last week we unveiled some of the bluegrass laws contained in recently discovered ancient scrolls from 1978. So as not overwhelm you with legalism, we've broken this up into two segments. I shall now, slowly, open the second seal, which
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John Meador signs with Billy Blue Publishing
Ed Leonard, John Meador, and Joe Dan Cornett with Billy Blue Publishing John Meador, tenor vocalist and guitarist, and one of several talented songwriters with Authentic Unlimited, has been announced as the newest signee with Billy Blue Publishing. The company is