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Lonesome River Band at the 2023 Grits 'n Grass Music Festival - photo © Laci Mack Laci Mack was on hand for the inaugural Grits 'n Grass festival last month in Pickens, SC. We thank her for sharing these fine images.

Caroline Owens' second single, No More Blue Moons in Kentucky, for Nashville’s Skyline Records, drops today. The twice-nominated IBMA Momentum Vocalist is joined on the song by the harmonies of Darin & Brooke Aldridge, who appear courtesy of Billy Blue Records.

More than 40 years after their debut on the scene in 1982, Lonesome River Band is still going strong, leading the way into a second generation of punchy, contemporary bluegrass. More evidence of their staying power comes today with a

Popular Ontario bluegrass artist Marc Roy has died. He passed quite suddenly on July 25 at 39 years of age. No cause of death has been shared by his family. Marc's participation in noted groups like Hard Ryde and Backcountry, plus

Billy Blue Records has produced a music video for Fall In Tennessee, their current single for Authentic Unlimited. The song is a showcase for guitarist John Meador, who composed it with Bob Minner, sings it in his pointedly clear tenor voice,

Mountain Home Music has a new single for The Grascals, in which we get our first recorded taste of the recently revitalized group. The band has welcomed founding member Jamie Johnson back following a period of several years while Johnson

Mountain Fever Records has a new single for lonesome mountain bluegrass specialist Junior Sisk, a Rodney Crowell song called Long Hard Road (The Share Cropper's Dream). Fans of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band may recall their 1984 recording of this song,

Steep Canyon Rangers have released another new single from their upcoming Darrell Scott-produced album, Morning Shift. For most fans, this will serve as their first listen to newest member Aaron Burnett singing with the Steeps, unless you have caught them

This morning the International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the nominees for their 2023 Industry and Momentum Awards. Both these nominees and the ultimate winners are chosen by select committees of IBMA members chosen for this purpose, in a multi-stage process

Roger Sprung, the innovative five-string banjo player, popular instructor and successful instrument dealer, widely recognized as "the Godfather of Progressive Bluegrass," and a pioneer of newgrass, passed away in Newtown, Connecticut, where he had made his home for many years.