Richie Dotson, noted luthier and banjo craftsman with Acoustic Box, near Richmond, VA, has introduced a set of handcrafted, vintage-style fingerpicks designed to be perfect reproductions of the highly prized National fingerpicks made prior to World War II. Small batch
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Pond Mountain Breakaway from Tray Wellington
Mountain Home Music has released a debut single from their first album with young banjo picker Tray Wellington. A 2021 graduate of the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University, Tray is poised to launch a career as both a
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Jake Lauzon to Nothin’ Fancy on guitar
Nothin' Fancy has announced the addition of a new band member. Jake Lauzon has joined the group on guitar, giving them the opportunity to declare themselves to be an international outfit! Jake is a native of Markham, Ontario and grew up
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Live music at DelFest Lite at B Chord Brewery
The weekend of DelFest Lite in Round Hill, Virginia was for the most part grey with rains on and off, but the talk around the festival was all about how happy the folks were to be having fun at a
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Not Your Average Folk Contest in North Carolina
What images and sounds come to mind when you think about folk music? Maybe not bluegrass, but bluegrass, country, Gospel, Irish fiddle tunes, Appalachian ballads, and more fall under the category. It is in this spirit of broadly conceptualizing and tying
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Flooding devastates Salmon Lake Park – festival to go on in September
Salmon Lake Park in Grapeland, TX, site of the popular Salmon Lake Park Bluegrass Festival, was severely damaged yesterday when the Salmon Lake dam burst following a period of high rain on Monday night. The National Weather Service has estimated
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From The Side of the Road… time off goals versus reality
Last December, we took a look at some of the ways that bluegrass musicians' lofty pandemic goals had run smack into the brick wall of reality. For many of us, the last 18 months have at times felt like a
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Bein’ Country – new single from Corey Zink
Corey Zink at the 2019 Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival - photo © Susie Neel Sound Biscuit Productions has released a debut single from their first project with Corey Zink, a popular New England bluegrass artist recently relocated to east Tennessee. Zink is
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Junior Sisk makes one couple’s prom night extra special
Everyone knows that our bluegrass community is a close knit affair, and that's certainly true in southwestern Virginia as well as anywhere else. That goes a long way towards explaining how Zacrye Porter, a rising senior at Tunstall High School
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Becky Buller introduces new bandmates
Becky Buller has announced two new members of her touring group, unsurprisingly named The Becky Buller Band. Regular readers will recall that she lost two bandmates late in 2020, when guitarist Dan Boner left to focus on his responsibilities as