Bluegrass festival/concert news

If you follow the entertainment media, you may have noticed that benefit shows and fund-raising events to assist with the cleanup and rebuilding in middle Tennessee are popping up all over the country. And of course, bluegrass folks are in

Bluegrass heavyweights and former Lonesome River Bandmates Dan Tyminski and Ronnie Bowman will be touring together this spring and summer. The two have long been known for how well their voices blend and complement each others, and have not performed

For those of you in the Nashville area who would like some musical diversion in the wake of the flooding, The Infamous Stringdusters have decided to convert a couple of hometown shows into fundraisers. Returning from the road, the band

Bluegrass Today had the opportunity over the weekend to attend a local performance of Dailey & Vincent, here in Southwest Virginia. What an outstanding show! The vocals where superb, as expected. The material was a combination of cuts from their

For all you Delheads out there, you know who you are, here's a recent interview with the man himself, Del McCoury, in the York Daily Record. York as in Pennsylvania. Del has won a great many awards during the course of

The Bill Monroe Memorial Music Park & Campground is up for sale once more, and the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation is on a mission to purchase the property, as a means of preserving the historic festival. Those who are interested

We're quickly approaching the 5th Annual Americana Music Festival & Flatpicking Guitar Camp at Peaceful Bend Vineyard in Steelville, Missouri. The event is put on by Simplefolk Productions and plays host to some great flatpicking every year. The last several years

As we've mentioned before, Bill Emerson is set to be honored this Saturday with the very first Washington Monument Award from the DC Bluegrass Union during their first bluegrass festival on March 27. The award will be given annually to DC-area

Don Rigsby hosted  a reunion of one of the classic Lonesome River Band lineups this past weekend at The Mountain Arts Center in Prestonburg, KY. The show featured Don, Ronnie Bowman, Sammy Shelor and Kenny Smith, who performed together as

Earlier this year, Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike recorded a new CD while doing a two week residency at the International Bluegrass Music Museum (read the story here). While they were there, the band saw first hand what it is