• Del’s New Year’s Eve party

    With Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas still to come, tickets for Del McCoury's New Year's Eve have already gone on sale. McCoury Music has announced that tickets for their New Year's Eve Party at The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tennessee, are available on

  • Last Day of Galax

    Johnny Williams released his most recent CD, Last Day of Galax, in August but we didn't get a copy until this week. It clearly shows why Johnny has earned his reputation as among the most expressive singers of traditional bluegrass

  • Bad news for Cabin Fever

    The Cabin Fever Pickin' Party has become a bluegrass institution, hosting a large indoor festival and massive jam each winter in Hampton, VA. The event started as a small, local event in Williamsburg, VA in 1995 and has grown to an

  • Curly Seckler and Steep Canyon Rangers

    Steep Canyon Rangers will be doing two shows this month with legendary bluegrass pioneer Curly Seckler. Seckler was the mandolinist and tenor singer with Flatt & Scruggs during their hey day in the 1950s and early '60s, and later became a

  • IBMA Travelogue #3

    Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , is with us in Nashville, having traveled from the UK to attend the IBMA convention this week. This is his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his impressions

  • IBMA Travelogue # 2

    Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , has arrived in Nashville from the UK to attend the IBMA convention next week. This is his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his impressions and considerations would

  • IBMA off site events

    With so many bluegrass folks packing up and heading to Nashville for the big IBMA week just ahead of us, we have put together a list of events not held in the Nashville Convention Center or The Renaissance Hotel. A

  • Top stars to honor Bill Monroe

    Some of bluegrass music's top present-day stars will honor Bill Monroe on September 30 in the annual Bill Monroe Bluegrass Celebration, which will take place on Tuesday, September 30 at the Opry House in Nashville. The Bill Monroe Bluegrass Celebration, presented

  • EWOB ’09 band application info online

    Applications are now being accepted for bands wishing to perform at the 2009 European World Of Bluegrass. The festival runs from May 21-23, 2009 in Voorthuizen, Netherlands and is a rough equivalent to the IBMA Fan Fest held at the conclusion

  • Gskaggs in Gstaad

    Earlier this month (September 12-13) Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder was among the headliners at the Gstaad Country Night festival in Switzerland. Since 1989 this event has brought top American acts, and European artists who perform American music, to Swiss