Bluegrass festival/concert news

It was New Year's Eve that Nashville grasser Steve Thomas and his wife, Janet, were enjoying a quiet night at home, until they saw smoke filling the room. Two hours later they stood outside watching the home they had rented

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking in on the Winter Village festival in snowy Ithaca, New York.  

We have another grasser in need, for whom friends have organized a benefit concert to help defray medical bills, associated costs and lost income. Regular readers will recall seeing news of John "Buckwheat" Green suffering a heart attack back in November

July 4 has long been a big holiday in the bluegrass world. Major festivals abound, and most every local and regional band has a fair, pig pickin' or backyard party to play. Somehow, summer and bluegrass music just go hand in

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week's Bluegrass Weather Report, looking at the BayGrass BlueGrass festival in the Florida Keys.  

Megan Lynch Chowning has done a great service for folks who run the fiddle contest circuit every year - and people who simply enjoy attending. She has compiled a master list of the many competitions held each year, searchable by

The final day of Bluegrass in Super Class on January 12, 20014 was kicked off by Nitro Ride from Pennsylvania. They were followed by Idletymes, Remington Ryde, The Bluegrass Mountaineers, and Rhonda Vincent & the Rage. The last picture is

Our Special Bluegrass Correspondent captured some images and video from the grand opening of the Earl Scruggs Center on January 11.    

The 24th edition of Bluegrass in Superclass kicked off January 10th at the Holiday Inn French Quarter in Perrysberg, Ohio. Local band Deepwater Bluegrass started the show. They were followed by Harbourtown, Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road, Tony Holt and the Wildwood Valley

Five promoters of prominent bluegrass festivals have banded together in a new venture to jointly market and publicize their events. Together they will function as Bluegrass Circle Promotions. Involved are Cory Hemilright (Outer Banks Bluegrass Festival), Lorraine Jordan (Bluegrass Christmas In the Smokies), John