Bluegrass festival/concert news

What an amazing event!  This is our first FloydFest and it is just a phenomenally well run event. As it turns out, though, there is a challenge in attending such a large event with so many amazing musicians. You just

Not only is Milo Farineau sending us images from FloydFest, Jason Lombard is out at RockyGrass doing the same. Here is his first set of photos. The first day of Rockygrass was super good and packed with great music: Henhouse Prowlers, 

The winners of the 2010 FloydFest Under The Radar Artist competition, Big Daddy Love currently hail from North Carolina but ironically all have roots in the Galax, Virginia area. “It’s funny” said front man, accoustic guitaris and songwriter Daniel Smith, “my

Here's Milo Farineau's first photo gallery from FloydFest 2011.

Here is a quick report from FloydFest 2011, with many more to come throughout the weekend. Greetings from the beautiful Shenandoah Parkway, in Floyd, Virginia, site of the 10th annual Floydfest festival! This is the biggest festival I've ever been to. There

Milo Farineau captured some terrific images of Yonder Mountain String Band at the All Good Festival in West Virginia a few weeks back. Milo will also be shooting at FloydFest this weekend.

To honor the life and music of the great Kenny Baker, Matt Glaser organized a special tribute at the Grey Fox Festival earlier this month. Billed as the Kenny Baker Grey Fox Memorial Orchestra, it featured what appears to be nine

The Bluegrass Blog posted earlier this year about the reformation of The Travelers, and their upcoming album on Patuxent Records. The band is based around noted bluegrass sidemen Norman Wright and Kevin Church, who toured with that name in the 1990s.

This review of the July 21 Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman show is a contributions from Daniel Mullins, who we hope will become one of our new correspondents when we launch our expanded new site later this year. It was a

Nancy Cardwell just sent along another batch of photos from the July 14 Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman concert in Nashville where she interviewed Doyle Lawson about the legacy of Bill Monroe. The show featured performances by Sierra Hull & Highway