Bluegrass festival/concert news

  • Infamous Stringdusters perform flood benefits

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    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

  • Dailey & Vincent in photos

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    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

  • Del McCoury interviewed

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    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

  • Help Pepsi save Beanblossom

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    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

  • Americana music and flatpicking guitar

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    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

  • Bill Emerson and DC fest on WAMU

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    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

  • Lonesome River Band reunion show at The MAC

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    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

  • Musicians for the Bluegrass Music Museum

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    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

  • Big weekend for Tom Gray in DC

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    Next weekend will be a big one for Tom Gray. Not only will the original Seldom Scene bass player be teaching at his first all-day workshop on March 27, he has a CD release concert with his new band that

  • Ed Helms and the L.A. Bluegrass Situation

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    We've  written before about Ed Helms (of The Office) and his love for bluegrass music. Not content merely to be a lone banjo player in L.A., Helms decided it was time to put together a bluegrass music event in Hollywood. Partnering