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Here's a nice Merry Christmas from the Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble, performing their director Al White's arrangement of the lovely Carol Of The Bells. It's a difficult and demanding piece of music, but they pull it off nicely with a

Nechville Musical Products is the latest bluegrass-oriented company to lend a hand to the relief efforts following the east Tennessee wildfires last month. The banjo builders were especially struck by the total destruction to the home and business of Pigeon Forge

The Edgar Loudermilk Band has released a music video for the title track from their current Pinecastle project, Georgia Maple. It mines that rich bluegrass vein of the old home place and grandpa's farm. Edgar says that memories from his youth

Bethany and Joe Xiques are a pair of young siblings from south Florida with a passion for bluegrass music. They've been studying music since they were young children, but the past two years has found their interests revolving around banjos and

The Bluegrass Brothers, super hard-driving traditionalists from Catawba, VA, will have a new look for 2017. Well, actually... it's more a return to an older look for the group. John Simmons, who had been playing guitar and singing with the Brothers,

The Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America has announced the nominees for their 43rd annual Bluegrass Music Awards. The winners will be announced and trophies awarded during the Society's National Convention which runs February 2-5, 2017 at

If you’re looking for clear, high lead vocals in today’s bluegrass community, one of the first voices to come to mind likely will be Larry Stephenson. Stephenson has been producing quality traditional bluegrass music for close to forty years –

Asheville Bluegrass at Crossroads Studio: Nick Dauphinais, Mike Hunter, Bobby Hicks, Mark Kuykendall, Scott Barnett (engineer), and Seth Rhienhart We spoke earlier today with Mark Kuykendall, who along with Bobby Hicks, has been working in the studio on their next recording with

What would you call a chat with one of our first generation bluegrass icons who, at 91 years of age, is still writing and recording new music. I had the chance today to speak with the great Mac Wiseman about

The Railsplitters have released a music video of a new song from singer/guitarist Lauren Stovall to help promote their upcoming tour with Yonder Mountain String Band. In a recent interview with Relix, Lauren says that the song was a good while