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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

52nd annual Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival (2024) - photo © Jeromie Stephens Here is another gallery of images shot by Jeromie Stephens during his visit to the Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival in Japan. It was a visit he had planned for many years

Off The Rails - 1st Bluegrass Band at the 2024 Old Fiddlers' Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock The 88th Annual Old Fiddlers Convention Open Competition, held August 5-10 at Felts Park in Galax, VA, concluded at 1:00 a.m. Sunday, after the last

We caught up with Rhonda Vincent this week to learn a bit more about her latest album, Destinations and Fun Places, which is available today (August 9), and one of the tracks from the project, a grassed-up version of Dolly

52nd annual Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival (2024) - photo © Jeromie Stephens ...or, how I learned to navigate among friends in Japan. After years of anticipation and planning, I finally arrived at the 52nd annual Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival in Japan. My journey started at