In what has become a tradition before the annual IBMA Board meetings each spring, the various members of the Board of Directors will hold a round-robin, jam-style performance this Sunday evening at Nashville's Station Inn. It shouldn't be a surprise that
Becky Johnson, a 2009 graduate of the IBMA Leadership Bluegrass program, is the recipient of a Best Team Performance award given out during the recent Leadership Bluegrass Alumni Retreat at the YMCA Blue Ridge Center in Black Mountain, NC. Johnson has
Spanish banjo master Lluis Gomez has released a new music video for one of the tracks on his current album, Dotze Contes. It's for the pop song What A Wonderful World, written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss, which
A story ran recently in Bluegrass Today that began, “Are you a bluegrass banjo fan who also traps small game?” It immediately made me feel like I hadn’t really given niche marketing the attention it deserves. Okay, I haven’t given
Do you have a young bluegrass band with at least two members 25 years of age or younger, and would like to showcase your music at the 2017 World of Bluegrass Convention in Raleigh, NC this summer, now is the
C.F. Martin has introduced several new guitar models for 2017 which they have been displaying at industry trade and guitar shows in the early parts of this year. As is their habit, some are targeted at the collectors market, with
If you had stumbled across Trey Alexander nine months ago, chances are he would have been shredding an electric guitar in a manner befitting someone who was named one of the top 10 electric players and was Guitar Player magazine’s
Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour - The Life and Music of Curly Seckler, will speak on Friday (May 19) at The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. She will talk about Curly's time with Flatt & Scruggs, his
Rick Cornish has shared another batch of his bluegrass cartoons, illustrate by Donna Miklica, from their new book, Bluegrass - Funnier Than It Sounds. See if you pick up a theme...Rick and Donna's book, with 160 pages of bluegrass humor, can
Photo of Steve Sutton by Ted Lehmann Well-known North Carolina banjo player Steve Sutton passed away unexpectedly yesterday at home in Waynesville, NC. He was 61 years of age. Steve had been through multiple surgeries on his neck and spine in the
