Sam Bush at MerleFest 2022 - photo © Michael Freas Many thanks to the good folks at MerleFest, who shared these photos from the grassier side of the 2022 four-day music festival. The event has been held since 1988 in memory of
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Photos from 2022 Old Settlers Music Festival
Del McCoury Band at the 2022 Old Settlers Music Festival - photo by Amy Price Many thanks to the folks at the Old Settlers Music Festival in Tilmon, TX who shared this gallery of images from this past weekend's happenings. Photos by
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Seth Mulder & Midnight Run heading to Europe in May
Seth Mulder & Midnight Run are gearing up for their first European tour, kicking off in Belgium in a little more than two weeks. The boys will be taking their hard charging, old time bluegrass show all across the continent
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Birds of Prey win 2022 ROMP Virtual Band contest
ROMP, i.e., the River of Music Party, held annually in Owensboro, KY, has announced Birds of Prey as the winners of their 2022 Virtual Band Contest. The competition involves bluegrass bands submitting a live video of themselves, and then entreating
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Trafaria Bluegrass Festival launches in Portugal
Talk about a destination event! The debut Trafaria Bluegrass festival is scheduled for this summer on the sunny Atlantic shores of Portugal. Taking an international approach, the organizers will bring in a number of acts from outside the small western European
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CaveFest to launch at The Caverns in Pelham, TN
The folks at The Caverns in Pelham, TN, host stage for the recording of the PBS television series, Bluegrass Underground, and many other concerts each year, has announced a new bluegrass and jamgrass festival starting this fall. CaveFest is scheduled for
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Naperville Bluegrass festival returns to Chicagoland
We wrote last month about Kim and Joyce Kraemer and their plan to restart the Naperville Bluegrass Festival, after it having been run successfully by Terry and Jan Lease from 1986 to 2014. Kim has shared a few words about
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Watchhouse Band in Ann Arbor, MI
Watchhouse at The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI (4/3/22) - photo by Bryan Bolea Bryan Bolea caught the Watchhouse band at The Ark in Ann Arbor, MI earlier this month. The group, formerly the duo Mandolin Orange, now expanded to a
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Wayne Henderson Guitar Competition returns this year
The organizers of the annual Wayne Henderson Festival, held in Grayson Highlands State Park in Mouth of Wilson, Virginia, are delighted to announce that not only will the festival return in 2022 after two COVID cancellations, but that the very popular
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David Harvey to present The Early History of Gibson in Missouri/Ohio
David Harvey, who oversees production of mandolins and acoustic instruments at Gibson in Nashville, will be offering a couple of presentations this spring on the history of the company which employs him. Though Gibson has seen several owners since it