Mike Duncan, 72-year-old North Carolina professional photographer and friend to bluegrass, passed away suddenly on Saturday, December 7, at Lake Junaluska, NC, prior to the Art of the Music Festival. Balsam Range shared on their Facebook page... "It is with heavy hearts
No one reading this is likely to need reminding of the kindness of bluegrass artists towards their audience. No other musical format experiences the sort of closeness and availability that bluegrass fans come to expect, with most of our top
Marshall Brickman, a seminal figure in the development of what is now known as melodic style banjo, died on November 29 at 85 years of age. Though perhaps more celebrated for his career in film, writing screenplays for a number of
Here's a couple of names for you... Kenny Baker and Randall Franks. Anyone who follows bluegrass knows of Kenny Baker, widely regarded as among the finest fiddlers to ever play the music, and certainly the chief exemplar of Bill Monroe's
Trey Hensley in Edmund, OK - photo © Pamm Tucker Walter Kelly with Atmospheric and the University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Lab in Edmond, OK hosted vocalist and flatpicker supreme Trey Hensley on November 22. I was fortunate to catch an
Ian Ly is the 2023 National Flatpick Guitar Champion who plays with the Crying Uncle Bluegrass Band. He grew up in Santa Cruz, CA, has studied with Steve Palazzo and Jake Workman, and is currently studying Visual Communications Design at
One thing we all learn in the bluegrass world is the inevitability of change. Our favorite bands switch personnel, and even acts that seem perfect are able to revise and develop in new ways that may surprise you at first,
With the recent retirement of guitarist/vocalist Dudley Connell after nearly three decades, The Seldom Scene had big shoes to fill. But for a band whose genesis dates back to 1971, this isn't the first, or even second time they have
Here's the video of Billy Strings, performing last night on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. As he typically does on television, Billy played a solid bluegrass number, this time, his current single from Highway Prayers, Seven Weeks in County, with
I want to wish you and yours a very happy Thanksgiving. Mine is a simple one: I'm up in the frozen north of western Canada, where Thanksgiving was last month. I'll be eating a pizza and filling in for other
