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British grassers The Jaywalkers paid a visit recently to the Big Comfy Bookshop in Coventry to shoot an episode of their Big Comfy Sessions. Shop owner Michael McEntee loves music as much as he does books, and regularly invites acoustic

Jamie Dailey, Jeff Parker, Jessie Baker, Gus Arrendale, Bob Mummert, and Darrin Vincent backstage at the Opry Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent took the opportunity of their recent appearance at the Grand Ole Opry to offer a tribute to several of

James Joyce was surely among the most celebrated and influential authors of the 20th century. The Irish novelist, playwright, and poet is remembered perhaps most widely for his magnum opus, Ulysses, and shorter works, A Portrait Of The Artist As

Saturday was a larger-than-life day at the Charlotte Bluegrass Festival. The morning started with a Kids Corner event sponsored by Festival promoter Wes Pettinger and the Southeast Michigan Bluegrass Music Association. The kids built shoe box guitars, colored instrument drawings,

Bluegrass – it’s all about the kids these days. Well, maybe not quite, but it does seem like there are more talented young pickers on the scene these days than we’ve ever seen before. Many of them are beginning to

The Clay Hess Band has announced that Brady Wallen will begin touring with them on banjo, effective immediately. Brady is from Williamsburg, KY, and is currently studying in the Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Studies program at East Tennessee State

Each Monday between now and July 17 we will feature a report from Daniel Mullins about special performances set to occur during this year’s MACC. The 2017 Musicians Against Childhood Cancer (MACC) benefits St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The multi-day musical

Bluegrass music lost one of its most iconic characters and soulful mountain-style singers with the passing of Dave Evans on Sunday evening, June 25. He was 65 years of age. Evans had given much of his life to bluegrass, developing a

The rain showers passed through and the sun came out mid-morning at the 45th Charlotte Bluegrass Festival on Friday. West Michigan’s own Corn Fed Girls opened the stage show, a band described as: “earthy and innovative with a folksy aesthetic.”

Rising water just before dusk at Rudy Fest (6/23/17) - photo by Josh Trivett Usually it's a good thing when bluegrass makes it to the evening news. But a story of natural disaster is rarely happy news in anybody's book. Last night