Events

This run down of the results from the resurrected fiddlers convention in Union Grove, NC - with a huge gallery of photos - is a contribution from Bethany Prevette. Photos were taken by Katie Lohff. The first annual Carolina Hills Fiddle

The FreshGrass festival in North Adams, MA has announced the finalists for their 2024 FreshGrass Awards. This annual invitational instrument and band competition brings finalists in to the festival in September to vie for more than $20,000 in cash and

Edgar Loudermilk Music Productions has announced that henceforth the Brown County Bluegrass Festival in Georgetown, Ohio will be co-produced by Classic Promotions/Jordan Entertainment. Loudermilk is, of course, well known to bluegrass lovers from performances with his Edgar Loudermilk Band, and before

Just a quick reminder that there's still time to enter and win in our Picky in Parsons video contest, offering free tickets to the big Pickin' in Parsons bluegrass festival in West Virginia at the end of the month, plus

Country Gongbang at the 2024 Father's Day Bluegrass Festival - photo © Robin Frenette Many thanks to the good people with the California Bluegrass Association and McGuckin Entertainment PR for sharing these fine photos from last month's big Father's Day Festival

Blue Grass Boogiemen at the 2024 Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival - photo © Victoria Zakharchuk The Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival was again held the final weekend of June at Noordplein in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Reports from the festival were

Hammertowne at the 2024 Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival - photo © Roger Black The weekend of June 20-22 brought the ringing of banjos to the hills of eastern Kentucky as the Stringbean Memorial Bluegrass Festival brought bluegrass music to life near

Highway sign at the 2024 Grayson County Fiddlers' Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock G. Nicholas Hancock spent the weekend in Elk Creek, VA to cover the 55th Grayson County Old-time and Bluegrass Fiddlers' Convention, sponsored by the Elk Creek Volunteer

Sister Sadie at the 2024 Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival - photo © Ted Lehmann Ted and Irene Lehmann were at this past weekend's Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival in Tunbridge, VT, and shared this nice batch of photos from Thursday and Friday's

Common Ground, 1st Place Bluegrass Band at the 2024 GraysonCounty Fiddlers' Convention - photo © G Nicholas Hancock Counting both adult and youth contestants, approximately 200 acoustic instrument pickers, folksong singers, and flatfoot dancers from as far away as Georgia and