Sylamore Special at the 2024 SPBGMA Band Championship The judges have shared their decision in the 2024 SPBGMA Band Championship, finishing this afternoon in Nashville. Bands compete over the course of two days in multiple rounds to come to the results below. And
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2024 SPBGMA Bluegrass Music Award winners
Tonight in Nashville, the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass for America (SPBGMA) is holding a ceremony to announce the winners of their 2024 Bluegrass Music Awards. This year is their 49th annual running of these awards, winners of which are
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Homesick for Virginia from Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road
Pinecastle Records has a new single today from the reformulated Liam Purcell & Cane Mill Road, the second track to drop from their upcoming project, Yellow Line. This latest, Homesick for Virginia, might surprise some of the band's longtime fans. Known
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Hometown Bluegrass Show podcast from Kentucky
Enjoy good bluegrass chat? Like to keep up with what Josh Williams is up to these days? Then you should give a listen to the new Hometown Bluegrass Show podcast, hosted by Tim Batts and the aforementioned Josh Williams. Recorded
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Next Leadership Bluegrass virtual workshop is on vocals
IBMA's Leadership Bluegrass alumni have announced February 21 as the date for their next virtual workshop, free to all online using the Zoom app. This one is dedicated to bluegrass vocals and is titled Everyone is a Singer: The Voice as
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Molly Tuttle to present at Grammy Premiere Ceremony
Molly Tuttle has been chosen as a presenter for the 2024 Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony on February 4. She has performed this service in the past, and must have done well as they have asked her back. The Premiere Ceremony is
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Silence drops for Katelyn Ingardia
Talented South Carolina bluegrass singer and songwriter Katelyn Ingardia, lead vocalist for Backline, has released a new single today from her solo project, one she wrote with Louis Hughes called Silence. The song is about the big empty space in your
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Powder Day video from Leftover Salmon
Andy Thorn, banjo man with Leftover Salmon, has written a song that serves as the band's next single, and as the theme of their current tour, which is billed as the 2024 Ski Tour. The tune is called Powder Day, with
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Ranelle Dietrich of The Arizona Wildflowers to make her Opry debut
15 year old Ranelle Dietrich, mandolinist with her family band, Arizona Wildflowers, has plans for the best 16th birthday party a young bluegrass musician could imagine. She is scheduled to make her Grand Ole Opry debut that day, August 31
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The Scandies Rose from Daniel Crabtree
Bluegrass fans always love a good sad song, and what could be more morose than a shipwreck in the freezing waters off Alaska's coast? That is the subject of The Scandies Rose, the second single from Daniel Crabtree's just-released album, Storms