Bluegrass festival/concert news

If you're planning a summer vacation trip to Nashville, you'll want to consider a trip to the Ryman Auditorium. And what better day than a Thursday when you catch a bluegrass show? Tonight, June 21, 2007, kicks off the season's Bluegrass

The Murfreesboro Post in Tennessee had a story on Monday announcing Jesse McReynolds as the recipient of the Uncle Dave Macon Heritage Award for 2007. This honor is given annually in the memory of the great Uncle Dave, with past

This weekend those that are able should make plans to attend the ROMP 2007 event in Owensboro, KY. ROMP is the music festival sponsored by the International Bluegrass Music Museum (IBMM), and features a line up that will make you

This post comes from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard F. Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder

The AT&T blueroom is offering a live video stream from the Bonnaroo festival this weekend (6/15/17) online. You can see the performance schedule they will carry on the Bonnaroo site. This isn't a bluegrass event by any stretch, but a number

Takeharu Kunimoto is a popular personality in Japan, where he performs on the shamisen in the traditional rokyoku style, and  works as an actor, storyteller and narrator for children's movies. He is also an accomplished bluegrass musician, both on the

The Early Show on CBS is sponsoring a series of six concerts this summer with different artists. It's all part of the Great American Vacation series. The six artists booked for the concert series are quite disparate and include such

The European Bluegrass Music Association has released some numbers on their recent European World Of Bluegrass events, which took place May 17-19 in Voorthuizen, the Netherlands. In this, their tenth annual festival, ticket sales were up by 20% over 2006,

Virginia based bluegrass band Nothin' Fancy will be performing at the grand opening of a new attraction at Shenandoah Caverns. On Fathers Day, June 17, 2007, Shenandoah Caverns opens The Yellow Barn. The Yellow Barn will feature restored antique farm wagons,

These days stories of bad customer service are everywhere. I could tell a few of my own from right here in small town Virginia. Here's a story of bad customer service set strait by Nickel Creek. Nickel Creek hits the road