Events

The Topanga Banjo-Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival near Thousand Oaks, CA is the latest California icon to fall victim to the raging wildfires north of Los Angeles. Since 1990, the festival has been hosted at the Paramount Ranch in the Santa

As bluegrass music has become more popular, it has found its way in to a great many places you wouldn't have expected. It is no longer uncommon to find colleges and universities teaching about the music, or forming ensembles to

One of the most popular festivals of the summer circuit is surely the annual Musicians Against Childhood Cancer, held in Ohio each July. Known to regulars simply as The MACC, the festival not only brings together fine bluegrass music with

This weekend will see the 17th annual Al Ras Bluegrass & Old Time Festival, hosted in a number of locations in Barcelona. Now the largest and most comprehensive event of its kind in Spain, Al Ras brings performers from all over

For the past six years, California banjoist Bill Evans has scheduled a series of concerts along the west coast, featuring himself and two other notable banjo pickers, and billed as the California Banjo Extravaganza. The idea is to give western

Alexandra Harman at the 2018 Oklahoma State Picking and Fiddling Championship - photo by Pamm Tucker On the last weekend of September, the Tulsa State Fair continued their tradition by hosting the 46th Annual Picking and Fiddling Championship. Yes, I said

The 12th annual Hoppin' John Old Time and Bluegrass Fiddlers Convention was held this past weekend in Pittsboro, NC on its rescheduled dates after Hurricane Florence's rain forced its cancellation back in September. Most of the artists booked to appear in

Special Consensus, another long-running bluegrass band who won big at last month's IBMA Awards, is away for Europe today, and a string of concerts that will find them in 6 different countries over the next two weeks. They are old hands

Jim Hurst (judge), Henry Coatney, Caleb Coatney, Austin Hefflefinger, Claire Childress, Steve Lewis (accompanist), Taylor Parks, Victor Furtado (judge), Jacob Moretz - photo by Dave Parrish Photography This past weekend during the Richmond Folk Festival, the winners in the Scott Street Five String

Anyone who lives in a small town or city is familiar with how they can receive a nickname. It can be a promotional effort by a local tourism commission, or they can come by association with some accident or natural