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Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn have scheduled a series of concerts for the Nashville area in mid-December to benefit a number of regionally-based organizations that they support. Billed as Circle Round Home 2, the two banjo mavens consider it as

It’s been a busy week that has taken me from Alberta to northern Minnesota (via Toronto), back to Alberta and now on to Nashville before playing shows in Virginia this weekend. I’m feeling the need to get my weekly massage,

Things move quickly in today's digital world, and it seems that its market is clamoring for more Anglo-Irish girl power bluegrass, as newly-formed Midnight Skyracer describes themselves. The five piece, all-female band from England and Ireland just launched in the spring

Mike Bentley has spent the past ten years playing guitar and singing lead with Cumberland Gap Connection. He's recorded three albums with the band, but decided that for his next studio effort, he would go it alone. All I've Got was

It's that time of year again, and Daily & Vincent have prepared a holiday treat starting just after Thanksgiving. They will be taking their 2017 Sprint of Christmas tour to a total of nine cities this year in the eastern and

Graham Sharp. Last name fits. Absolutely nothing dull about this guy. Sharp as a tack, in fact. He rips banjo rolls, belts out bold baritone, and plays the harmonica with hurricane force, sometimes all on the same song! He is

The Louvat Brothers at the 2017 Oklahoma International Bluegrass Festival It seems that every band has a Steve! But if given the opportunity to visit with The Louvat Brothers, a string trio based in Belgium, you will find that this talented

For the past several years fiddler Brittany Haas, bassist Paul Kowert, and guitarist Jordan Tice have performed together as Haas, Kowert, Tice. All are highly skilled bluegrass, old time, and new acoustic instrumentalists, and together they have created a good

The 7th Annual Songwriting Contest of the Maine Songwriters Association was held on October 28 in Brunswick, ME, with six finalists on hand to perform their song for the judges. They had been chosen from among 33 entries for the

Paul Beard has been a luthier and builder of resonator guitars at Beard Guitars in his hometown of Hagerstown, Maryland since 1985. His mother was a housewife who raised three children and his father worked as a purchasing agent at