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Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show at the March 2017 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival - photo by Bill Warren Joe Mullins kicked off Saturday at the Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival with a presentation about the Danny Stewart Bluegrass Cruise

Perhaps the only thing better than enjoying live bluegrass by some of your favorite artists, is witnessing those artists perform in an intimate, magical setting with near perfect acoustics. This past weekend brought those elements together in a truly special

Backline Bluegrass, 1st prize winners in the 2017 RenoFest Band Competition The contest winners from this year's RenoFest in Hartsville, SC have been announced. The annual festival, held the 4th weekend in March, honors the music and the memory of the

Dailey & Vincent perform at the March 2017 SOIMF - photo © Bill Warren The March 2017 Southern Ohio Indoor Music Festival (SOIMF) kicked off Friday with one of Ohio’s special musical groups, Alternative Strings, based in Centerville, Ohio. The group

The Earls Of Leicester at the Suwanee Spring Reunion Festival (3/24/17) - photo by Brian Paul Swenk Day 2 of the Suwannee Spring Reunion Festival featured the time-machine of Jerry Douglas and the Earls of Leicester.  It’s very rare that you get

Grandpa's Cough Medicine at the 2017 Suwanee Spring Reunion - photo by Brian Paul Swenk Brian Paul Swenk will be posting daily updates from this year's Suwannee Spring Reunion festival. There’s no better way to start the music festival season than with

Sad news for midwestern flatpick guitar players. St Louis Flatpick, which has been operating annually in early spring this past 12 years, will come to an end after this month's final weekend event. Hosted by Bull and Tammy Harman since its

A new bluegrass music festival will take place in Kansas City, MO this spring. Bluegrass In The Bottoms is scheduled for May 19-20, bringing lots of music and craft beer to the city's West Bottoms region. Located where the Missouri and

Bluegrass lovers in southern California who have been bemoaning the loss of the Huck Finn festival can take some relief in this news. The Temecula Valley Bluegrass Festival is being resurrected under new management. It had been announced after the 2016

Mike Snider and Mark Johnson on the Grand Ole Opry - photo by Nicole Christianson Florida's Mark Johnson, inventor of the clawgrass style of banjo, had a big moment last weekend when he traveled to Nashville to appear on the Grand