• Tony Kakaris of Nightflyer fighting cancer

    Ohio's Nightflyer band is asking fans and friends to add their bass player, Tony Kakaris, to their prayer lists. Tony has recently received a diagnosis of multiple myeloma, a type of cancer that attacks the marrow in your bones. He is

  • 2019 IBMA Foundation grants deadline approaching

    Each year the IBMA Foundation makes more than $10,000 in grants to worthy organizations that support bluegrass music-related educational, literary, artistic and historic preservation projects, and programs benefiting the general public. The amount available for grants is determined by both donations

  • Acoustic Guitar magazine switches to bi-monthly

    Stringletter Media, publishers of Acoustic Guitar magazine, have announced that they are dropping their print publication schedule down to every other month from the monthly frequency they had followed for most of the 22 years the magazine has been active. The

  • Introducing BluegrassMatch.com

    There’s been an exciting new development at Bluegrass Today. I think it’s even bigger than the recent breaking of the personnel change story that rocked the industry: “Brian Hampton to Kryspy Rydge.” It may even be bigger than the installation

  • Stash Band 3 tests the limits of bluegrass

    How do you feel about experimental music? Think carefully, because how you answer will go a long way towards determining whether you find this article fascinating, or downright silly. If the concept of blending influences and merging genres appeals to you,