Events

2017 KSMU Youth In Bluegrass winners, The Sowell Family Pickers It's time once again for young bluegrass bands to get ready for the KSMU Youth in Bluegrass Band Contest, held each year at Silver Dollar City during their annual Bluegrass &

Attention German bluegrass and old time music lovers! The 2017 edition of the Bluegrass Jamboree! package tour starts next week with 24 dates in Germany, Netherlands, and Austria leading up to Christmas week. Each year since 2009 Rainer Zellner has brought

Paul Williams, Joe Mullins, and Richie Williams at the Fall 2017 SOIMF - photo © Bill Warren Saturday was a special day for the 2017 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. The show was opened by Remington Ryde. They have become a fixture

Friday was the opening of the November 2017 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival. Steve Gulley and New Pinnacle opened the show at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, Ohio. Steve presents a mix of traditional bluegrass and classic country music. Ralph Stanley

Marvelous news for bluegrass fans in western Kentucky and neighboring areas. It appears that the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration will be back for 2018 and beyond. It will be managed by the Ohio County Tourism Commission and the Bill Monroe Foundation,

Virginia's Crooked Road organization has opened submissions for cultural events in the southwestern part of the state that would like to included in the offerings of their 2018 Mountains of Music Homecoming. The nine-day celebration of Appalachian arts and culture

Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn have scheduled a series of concerts for the Nashville area in mid-December to benefit a number of regionally-based organizations that they support. Billed as Circle Round Home 2, the two banjo mavens consider it as

It's that time of year again, and Daily & Vincent have prepared a holiday treat starting just after Thanksgiving. They will be taking their 2017 Sprint of Christmas tour to a total of nine cities this year in the eastern and

We heard this morning from Graham Sharp, banjo man with Steep Canyon Rangers, who shared a report from their 12th annual Mountain Song Festival in Brevard, NC in September. The festival is a charity event, with proceeds donated to area

Veteran Kentucky grasser, Tommy Brown, and his wife, Laura, are spearheading an effort to revive the Jerusalem Ridge Bluegrass Celebration festival at its original site on the Bill Monroe Homeplace. The festival was launched in conjunction with the opening of the