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
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Pinecastle Records National Bluegrass Band Competition
Pinecastle Records and the SamJam Bluegrass Festival have announced that they will be partnering next year for the first ever Pinecastle Records National Bluegrass Band Competition. This competition will be held during the 2019 SamJam in Ohio, with the winning band leaving
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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
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Right Where You Left It video from Kristy Cox
Australian bluegrass artist Kristy Cox has a new music video from her current Richochet album. Back home, she is promoted as a country singer, and has enjoyed a good deal of critical success there for her pure, acoustic sound. The video is
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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
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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
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Master’s Standing By video drops for King James Boys
Pinecastle Records has released a new music video from The King James Boys featuring one of the tracks from their current album, Time To Go Home. These Boys are the real deal, singing old time bluegrass Gospel with faith and feeling.
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Tattered Window Shade from Baucom and the Dukes
Tattered Window Shade has been released as the latest single from Terry Baucom & the Dukes Of Drive, coming in conjunction with Catch Another Dream, the new album on which it is contained. It hits while another track from the record, They
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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,
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Initial Ashokan Bluegrass Camp wraps up in New York
Tony Trischka leads a banjo class at the initial Ashoken Bluegrass Camp - photo by Stewart Dean The Ashokan Center in New York recently hosted their initial bluegrass camp, after successfully holding instructional camps for old time, klezmer, and other forms