Bluegrass festival/concert news

You can find a list of the winners from this past weekend's Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, VA on the official festival web site. This year was the 71st annual event held in Galax, a convention that draws thousands of

Rhonda Vincent has been described as the Queen of Bluegrass Music on more than one occasion, but on September 1, it will become official. The folks who put on the National Old Time Country & Bluegrass Music Festival in Missouri

If you follow the music industry or country music news, you may have noted that country music superstar Vince Gill has some mighty ambitious plans for his next CD, These Days. It's a four CD set to be released on

Alan Dalton wrote in recently to let us know about a DVD release of the last recorded performance of fiddle legend, Vassar Clements. The recording took place in Athens, Georgia on December 18, 2004. The performance featured Clement's Holiday Band;

This past weekend marked the 30th anniversary of Stompin' 76, a huge music festival held near Galax, VA. Estimates of the attendance ranged between 70,000 and 100,000 people over three days. The festival was promoted by Hal Abramson, a young

Fiddlers, and fans of fiddle music in the Nashville area, have made a point to catch the occasional concerts held at The Violin Shop on Old Hickory Boulevard. The shows are always intimate, performed with no amplification in a 60

The Ocala Star Banner newspaper in Ocala, FL ran a very nice tribute in this morning's edition, recalling Lonnie Knight, founder of the long running Withlacoochee Bluegrass Jamboree, who passed away on July 23. Knight was 79 years old at

More cruise offerings for bluegrass folks. This one is the Bell Buckle Music Cruise sailing to Freeport and Nassau, Bahamas on Carnival Cruise Line's Sensation. The dates for this cruise are February 4 - 8, 2007. The line up

Here is another cruise option for those who are considering the purchase of vacation packages for their favorite blog authors (and don't forget our spouses!). This is the 9th Annual ETA Bluegrass Cruise. They lay claim to being the original bluegrass

Here's another bluegrass cruise for you to ponder when planning the family vacation. It's the Bahamas Bluegrass Cruise and, you guessed it, it's traveling to the Bahamas! It sails out of Port Canaveral, FL and the dates for the cruise