Events

The Walnut Valley Association has announced the return of the Battle of the Bands for their first virtual Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS, which they are calling WVF 48.5. This year should have been the 49th annual festival and

We had a bluegrass festival!  Since March of this year, and the invasion of COVID-19, bluegrass events and festivals have been all but silenced. Some are having private events and small gatherings, but the places many of us call home for

The very first Overlook Farms Fiddlers Convention was held last week in Stoneville, NC. It was held specifically in order to give the pickers in that region a place to go and jam following the cancellation of the 2020 Old

MerleFest, the annual mega-fest of acoustic and roots music held each spring on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, NC, has announced a one-time date change for their 2021 event. The 2020 festival had been postponed until next year

We heard today from our friends with My Grass Is Blue in Ireland, who promote bluegras shows both at home, and across Europe as well. Run by the Byrne family on the east coast of Ireland, they had planned to bring

A pall has fallen over the bluegrass and acoustic music community its in Boston over the news that the Cantab Lounge, the region's home for bluegrass shows and jams for many years, is to be sold. The popular night spot, located

UPDATE 8/14 - Owing to technical difficulties during the July 25 live stream, Brandon Lee Adams and beyerdynamic are teaming up again on August 29 to demonstrate Adams' fine singing, playing, and songwriting, plus the effectiveness of the beyerdynamics microphones

The annual Grey Fox festival in New York has long been considered one of the nation's best, offering high quality bluegrass, old time, and acoustic roots music in a carefully organized setting for more than 35 years. Needless to say,

Herb Pedersen and Thierry Schoysman Following an invitation that the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) extended to its members that they share a memory from “75 years of bluegrass,” we thought that we would collect a few to share with you.  Belgian

At the recent Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association’s Pinnacle Awards, the The Johnson City Sessions 90th Anniversary Celebration was singled out as Festival or Event of the Year. The celebration had been held in October 2019, and timed to coincide with the