Della Mae at the IBMA Bluegrass Live! festival (10/1/22) - photo © Frank Baker With the rough weather this past weekend in Raleigh, we were unable to get over to the Duke Energy Center for the indoor version of IBMA's 2022
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Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival calls it quits
After 23 years of providing top quality bluegrass entertainment, and donating many hundreds of thousands of dollars to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the vaunted Musicians Against Childhood Cancer Music Festival is coming to an end. Darrel and Phyllis Adkins have
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2022 FreshGrass Award winners
The Wildmans, band competition winners in the 2022 FreshGrass Awards This past weekend at the FreshGrass Festival in North Adams, MA, selected finalists went head-to-head in the 2022 FreshGrass Awards competition. The contest is held each year in two stages, with a
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IBMA Bluegrass Live! moving indoors for this weekend
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced this afternoon that all of the outdoor musical performances associated with the IBMA Bluegrass Live! festival will be moving indoors, due to expected rain and wind from hurricane Ian. Fortunately, the IBMA has some
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Photos from Walnut Valley Festival 2022
Rhonda Vincent & The Rage at the 2022 Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS Many thanks to Rex Flottman, Media Director for the Walnut Valley Festival, for sharing these photos from their 2022 event - the 50th! - earlier this month
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Full Cord Bluegrass at Founders Brewery in Grand Rapids
Full Cord Bluegrass at Founder's Brewery in Grand Rapids, MI (9/16/22) - photo © Bryan Bolea Winning this year's Telluride Bluegrass Contest put West Michigan-based Full Cord Bluegrass on more fans' radar, and their music on more cultivated playlists, than ever
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Final photos from Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival 2022
Kids Academy performance at the 2022 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival - photo by Frank Baker Here's our final gallery of Frank Baker's evocative photos from the 2022 Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival. Frank is packing up now to join us next week for
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Evans Media Source takes over Sertoma Youth Ranch Thanksgiving Festival
After successfully managing the resurrected spring bluegrass festival at the Sertoma Youth Ranch in Florida, Evans Media Source has been announced as the new producers of the Thanksgiving weekend festival as well. A number of recent changes have led to this
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Contest winners at the 50th annual Walnut Valley festival
2022 National Guitar Flat Pick Championship winners: Justus Ross, Holten Doucette, and Ian Ly There are a few festivals, contests, and conventions in the bluegrass and old time music world that are so thoroughly a part of the culture that you
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Still more photos from the inaugural Earl Scruggs Music Festival
Darin & Brooke Aldridge at the inaugural Earl Scruggs Music Festival, Labor Day 2022 - photo by Bryce Lafoon Here is another gallery of images shot by Bryce Lafoon of Lightshifter Studios during the Earl Scruggs Music Festival over Labor Day