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Pickin’ In Parsons has rapidly grown into a healthy, thriving bluegrass music festival in the short time it has been around. 2018 will mark the 15th annual festival In Parsons, West Virginia. Fans of the festival will have something new

The bluegrass music carousel continues to rotate with three members of the Carl Towns Band – Towns himself, Elliot Varner and Brett Martin - joining August and Eric Bruce to form a re-invigorated Barefoot Nellie & Co. Towns, a singer-songwriter from

Mountain Fever Records has announced the signing of ClayBank to the label. The young North Carolina band will produce an album for them in 2018. ClayBank has experienced a meteoric rise in the past year and a half, largely based on

This video is for all our readers who think that the old mountain sound has gone out of bluegrass music. Alex Leach is the banjo player and harmony vocalist with Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys. He is as

D'Addario is introducing two new products in their Ned Steinberger accessory line that should be of interest to bluegrass guitarists, both to be unveiled at the January NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. First up is a Cradle Capo of the sort

Jasper and Sofia Lorentzen welcomed a healthy baby boy into the world of bluegrass today. Jasper is known as the rambunctious “bobbleheaded” bass player of The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. Caspian Daniel Lorentzen was born at 5:12 a.m. on December 13, 2017

The latest Mountain Home Music CD from Donna Ulisse is one of those “on the one hand, on the other hand” propositions. On the one hand, Ulisse’s Breakin’ Easy is a textbook example of top-notch traditional bluegrass songwriting. Every listen unveils

’Tis the busy season, and I’m doing lots of SiriusXM fill-in work this week, so I’m going to pull one out of the archives. I just recently saw a fine production of A Christmas Carol by the Citadel Theatre in

Why are we not surprised that Steve Martin has released a hilarious music video for Strangest Christmas Yet, one of the tracks from his current project with Steep Canyon Rangers, The Long Awaited Album. It tells the story of a gaggle

Over the years, bluegrass fans have developed expectations of what to expect from a banjo album, and likewise with a singer/songwriter project. The one is likely filled with rip-roaring instrumentals, and the other a collection of songs from a single,