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At this year's World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, one of the new groups I most enjoyed seeing live was New Jersey's Nefesh Mountain. Fronted by the husband/wife team of Eric Lindberg and Doni Zasloff, the band serves as the Jewish

Barefoot Movement has created a special EP this year with a holiday theme. Titled simply The Barefoot Movement Christmas Album, it contains a half dozen secular Christmas songs that have become popular over the past 70 years or so, several

Eddie Adcock, Jim Lauderdale, and Martha Adcock at the 17th Annual Christmas Bluegrass Benefit Concert for the Homeless - photo © Bill Warren On December 11th Martha and Eddie Adcock hosted the 17th benefit for “Room at the Inn” at the

They're back - for the fourth year in a row. That's right, the Banjo Babes Calendar for 2017 is now available, featuring both a full-sized calendar with high quality art photos of female banjo pickers, plus an audio CD with songs

Mountain Faith has been called upon once again by the Atlanta Falcons to sing the National Anthem before one of their home games. At yesterday's contest with the San Franscisco 49ers, the band was brought to the center of the

Jacob Burleson has been announced as the new mandolinist with Volume Five. He will join the group effective January 28 when they perform at Everett’s Music Barn in Suwanee, GA. Jacob has been around bluegrass music all his life, growing up

Remember those cute little boys who captured the world's attention on YouTube playing Earl Scruggs banjo tunes from their bedrooms in New Jersey? Those were the Mizzone brothers and they were an immediate sensation back in 2011 when their family

Benny Birchfield and Jean Shepard pose with a friend Benny Birchfield, the singer of the third part in the Osborne Brothers’ band during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and 79-year-old widower of the recently-deceased country music singer Jean Shepard, was

The name Clarence White is uttered in reverent tones in the bluegrass world, and deservedly so. The young guitarist was in the midst of redefining the role of the acoustic guitar in bluegrass, and the electric in the burgeoning field

We heard this week from Rainer Zellner, chief promoter for Bluegrass Jamboree, a traveling bluegrass and roots music festival that tours central Europe each year. He has been putting on these shows since 2009, bringing US acts to perform in