This morning the International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the nominees for their 2022 Industry and Momentum Awards. Both these nominees and the winners are chosen by select committees of IBMA members chosen for this purpose. The IBMA Industry Awards are given
Former Blue Grass Boy, Les Sandy, passed away at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, North Carolina, on July 28, 2022, after a short battle with cancer. He was 93 years old. Leslie Matheson Sandy was born, one of the eight
Clyde Maness at the Music Barn - photo by G Nicholas Hancock Clyde Maness, bass player and proprietor of Maness Pottery & Music Barn in Carthage, NC, passed away on Sunday, July 31. The most recent recipient of Alan Perdue Memorial
Dick Smith at the 2003 IBMA convention in Louisville, KY - photo © Jeromie Stephens Dick Smith, Washington, DC area musician, passed away unexpectedly in his sleep on Thursday morning July 28, 2022. He was 77 years old. Born October 4, 1943,
Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers have a new single today with Billy Blue Records, featuring the newest Rambler, Jeff Parker, on mandolin and lead vocal. It's a song called Big City - not the Merle Haggard country classic, but
Mountain Fever Records has a new single this week for Dave Adkins, the third from his upcoming We're All Crazy album, due to hit next week. A native of eastern Kentucky, Dave has been singing bluegrass music since he was in
This remembrance of John Conine is a contribution from Joe Fili & Richard D. Smith. John "Chubby" Conine, 83, of Farmingdale, NJ — for decades an elder statesman and mainstay of bluegrass in New Jersey — passed away peacefully on July 21,
This morning in Nashville the International Bluegrass Music Association announced the nominees for their 33rd annual Bluegrass Music Awards. This yearly ritual grabs the attention of everyone in the bluegrass world, when fans, artists, labels, radio, pickers, singers, songwriters, and
The highly-celebrated Will The Circle be Unbroken, the seventh and perhaps most consequential album released by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in November. To mark this Golden Anniversary, John McEuen is releasing a book that details
Earlier this week we had the opportunity to chat with Dan Tyminski about his Tony Rice tribute EP, One More Time Before You Go, his excellent new edition of The Dan Tyminski Band, and the current status of Alison Krauss
