Daily Feature

The iconic Camp Springs Labor Day Festival at Blue Grass Park is slated to return this weekend, August 30-September 1. Carlton Haney started North Carolina's first multi-day bluegrass festival on this rural site in the northwestern part of the state

Another bluegrass baby! Congratulations to Adam Miller, mandolinist with Lonesome River Band, and his wife, Bailey, on the birth of their first child. James Aiden Bailey was born on August 24 at 8:33 p.m., weighing in at 7 lbs, 12 oz, and

Jason Carter and Michael Cleveland on the Opry (8/7/24) - photo © Emma McCoury Back on August 7, Jason Carter and Michael Cleveland trekked out to the Grand Ole Opry for the debut live performance of their latest single, Outrun The

Cory Walker with East Nash Grass at the NC State Bluegrass Festival (8/17/24) - photo © Laura Ridge Many thanks to Laura Ridge who shared all these images from the 49th annual North Carolina State Bluegrass Festival, held at the Camping

Junior Sisk at the Fall 2024 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival - photo © Frank Baker As he always is, Frank Baker was on site during this past weekend's Fall 2024 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, capturing photographs of all the talented acts on stage.

The Kruger Brothers doing soundcheck at the Opry - photo © Margaret Willows Two weeks ago today, August 6, was a red letter day for The Kruger Brothers. Siblings Jens on banjo, and Uwe on guitar, along with longtime bassist Joel

With Labor Day coming up, it means that the Grand Master Fiddler Championship is just around the corner. Top fiddlers in bluegrass, old time, swing, Texas, and contest style will get together at the Turner Theater in Franklin, TN, just

Bobby Hicks with a fiddle he bought from Birch Monroe - photo © Lincoln Hensley Fiddler Bobby Hicks, surely among the most celebrated and enduring musicians to ever play bluegrass music, has died from complications of heart disease. After suffering a

Cincinnati bluegrass vocalist, bandleader, and radio host Katie Laur died on August 3. For 27 years she had hosted Music From The Hills Of Home on WNKU, an NPR affiliate station broadcasting from Northern Kentucky University. She started at the station

 Band from the Cayman Islands at the 2024 Galax Old Fiddlers Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock The six days of the 88th Old Fiddlers' Convention at Felts Park in Galax, VA provided opportunities for literally thousands of photographs to