Kristen Leigh Bearfield is a talented young vocalist and mandolinist working with High Road, an all-female Gospel/bluegrass/country act based in Nashville. She attended the bluegrass program at East Tennessee State University, and is noted for her lovely singing voice, wholesome
Ever since it was released as a single by The Country Gentlemen in 1966, Christmas Time Back Home has been a perennial staple among bluegrass Christmas songs. Written by John Duffey and Anne Hill Streeter, and backed on the original
The Bluegrass Christmas music train just keeps on rolling, with a new addition today from The Barefoot Movement. So named for their penchant to perform live sans foot coverings, that habit may not be in perfect synch with the sentiment
Welcome to the official start to the Christmas season! Even though the traditional Christian Nativity observance has been from December 25 to January 6 - the 12 days of Christmas - the modern world has stretched this period out to
The Infamous Stringdusters are the latest to board the 2020 Christmas train, with a new single out today from their upcoming album, Dust The Halls: An Acoustic Christmas Holiday! This marks the band's 10th studio recording, and their first with their
Mountain Fever Records has released their first entry in the 2020 bluegrass Christmas sweepstakes, with a new single from Pennsylvania's Colebrook Road. The guys have put together an acoustic treatment of Run Run Rudolph, Chuck Berry's whimsical holiday favorite from 1958.
OK.... everyone who gets the vapors when they hear anything about Christmas before Thanksgiving, close this window and take your blood pressure medicine. Right now! There is always a plethora of new bluegrass music over the holidays, much of it with
Banjo maestro Butch Robins has recreated as a single, a song he wrote a couple of years back, and re-released it this year as a Christmas treat. It's one called Holiday Toast, which combines an old fashioned wish for the
When celebrated singer, songwriter, and storyteller Grant Maloy Smith published his children's book earlier this year, he recognized that its story simply cried out for a song. So he wrote one, and since his target audience was young readers, he
The Purple Hulls are a pair of identical twin sisters, Katy and Penny Clark, in northeastern Texas who play and sing bluegrass and acoustic Americana music. Their latest album is a Christmas album, called A Christmas Album, which features a mix
