The Nashville area home of Keith Bilbrey, former radio announcer at WSM and the Grand Ole Opry, was severely damaged by fire early this morning. Always a good friend to bluegrass music, he and his wife were barely able to
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Track Premiere: Half Past Four from Tray Wellington
Mountain Home Music has a new single for North Carolina banjo man Tray Wellington this week, a grassified take on an old time favorite that should please fans of both styles. Wellington has received a great deal of attention in bluegrass
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From The Side of the Road… and the first noun to be retired is…
Last week, I gave all publicists and artists who write their own bios in third person fair warning that in addition to the annual retirement of some of our most beloved adjectives, this year will mark the first retirement of
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Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival to release limited edition LP
While US bluegrass lovers are celebrating the return of live music outdoors, our friends in Europe are not so lucky. Vaccine implementation is lagging behind, and bluegrass festivals and shows are cancelled for the most part this year in response. But
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Big City video from Mason Via
Mountain Fever Records has just released a music video from their new young artist, Mason Via, for his current single, Big City. Via is making major waves this year, appearing on American Idol on ABC TV, and being named the newest
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More from Willow Oak Park Bluegrass Festival 2021
Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road at the 2021 Willow Oak Park Bluegrass Festival - photo by Laura Ridge Here is another gallery of images from the Willow Oak Park Bluegrass Festival, held over the Father's Day weekend 2021. They were taken
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I Wish I Had A Lifeline video from Stoney Creek
West Virginia's Stoney Creek has dropped a second single to bluegrass radio, ahead of this Friday's release of their next album, A Miner's Life. This time it's a Gospel song from the pen of Mike Henderson, formerly with The Steeldrivers, a
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New look for Josh Grigsby & County Line
Josh Grigsby has been performing bluegrass from Virginia's scenic Northern Neck region for the past eight years with his band, County Line, which also includes his wife, Crystal, on harmony vocals. With his strong tenor voice and traditional bluegrass sound,
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Black Mountain Rag from Jake Eddy
We have had occasion to mention young West Virginia flatpick wizard Jake Eddy a couple of times recently at Bluegrass Today. Once at the news of him joining up with the Becky Buller Band, and again about a collaboration he
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Willow Oak Bluegrass Festival – a weekend of special moments
"Music makes the world a better place." That's a line Russell Moore sang from Grandpa's Mandolin Saturday afternoon at Willow Oak Bluegrass Festival in Roxboro in north central North Carolina. Written by Billy and Terry Smith and Mark Irwin, the