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Dudley Murphy, top-rated flatpick guitarist with Radio Flyer, passed away on Saturday, November 19, 2022. He was 82 years of age.   Born on April 16, 1940, in Danville, Kentucky, Murphy's interest in music began during his high school days in

Irene, Bryan, Anna Catherine, and Leonard Causby with Earl Scruggs, circa 1984 Banjoist Roger Hester, 81, of Sanford, NC, is a walking, breathing encyclopedia of bluegrass history. Recently, he shared a bit of his musical heritage that included the famous banjo

615 Hideaway Records has a new single for David Parmley, taken from his upcoming full-length project with the label. It's a song called West Virginia, written by Linda Buell and Jody Emerson, that reunites the legendary bluegrass vocalist with his long time partner

Billy Blue Records has released a new single from their current album, Jubilation, by Appalachian Road Show. This latest, The Ballad of Kidder Cole, is a perfect demonstration of why this group has won a legion of fans from their three

2022 Red Wine Bluegrass Party in Genoa, Italy - photo © Alessandro Ardy For the past decade and a half, our Italian friends in the Red Wine band have thrown a big concert every year to celebrate with their friends and

Andy Leftwich needs no introduction for bluegrass lovers. For over fifteen years he served as a fiddler for Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder and has appeared on countless recordings with other artists as a session musician. The American Fiddler, Leftwich's third

The nominees for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced, and in addition to all the glitzy pop stars, we also have the all-important bluegrass award. The Grammies define criteria for the Best Bluegrass Album category as a project with greater

This report on the Al Ras festival in Barcelona is a contribution from Michael Luchtan. We celebrated the 21st Al Ras Bluegrass and Old Time Music festival on the first weekend of November, 2022. This was the first time since 2019 that

Lorraine Jordan has announced the addition of Wayne Morris to Carolina Road on lead guitar. Wayne has worked with Lorraine in her other groups (Country Grass Band, Garrett Newton Band, CCR Tribute Band), and has a long history in bluegrass and

The Steve Martin Banjo Prize for 2022 has been awarded to two stellar players: Bill Evans of Alto, New Mexico, and Enda Scahill of Galway, Ireland. This prize, currently administered by The FreshGrass Foundation, was initiated in 2010 by comedian and