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The nominees have been announced this morning for the 2020 Grammy Awards. As always, the gala press conference dealt with the glitzy pop and rap stars that get all the attention, but our eyes were immediately directed to the all-important

Fiddlin', the feature-length documentary film about the Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA, is now available on two major streaming services online. Both Amazon and iTunes have added the film to their catalog today, allowing viewers to either purchase or

Bluegrass music is heading for a special night at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Owensboro, KY. Bluegrass Now is taping an all-star cast next month in anticipation of airing it on PBS, February 29, 2020. The taping, taking place

A gaggle of familiar names are among the winners of the 2019 Mike Auldridge Instrumental Composition Contest, sponsored by the DC Bluegrass Union. The first place song, Chapel Hill Deer Stalk, comes from George Jackson, a Madison, TN, fiddler who tours

Dark Shadow Recording has released a music video for the title track of Rick Faris' new CD, Breaking In Lonesome. It's the rarest sort of track in bluegrass, the cheerful breakup song. This one, a previous #1 hit on our Bluegrass

Once again this month, bluegrass loving subscribers to the SiriusXM satellite radio service will experience a short term interruption in the Bluegrass Junction feed on channel 62. Long time subscribers will recall this happening once before when Bluegrass Junction was

Chris Jones' acerbic column on self-promotion notwithstanding, publicity remains a major concern of independent artists of every stripe, including those of us in the bluegrass world. It has been well said that if you create a better mousetrap, but nobody

The Roe Family Singers with their 2019 BMAI Awards The Bluegrass Music Association of Iowa gave out their 4th annual awards on November 2 on the final day of the Honey Creek Bluegrass Festival in Moravia, IA. Nominees and winners are selected

One of the many benefits of bluegrass's greater exposure in the wider music world these days is the lure it offers to talented performers from outside our realm. Musicians trained in other disciplines are trying their hand at the mountain

Doyle Lawson has been satisfying bluegrass audiences on stage, and in the studio, for more than 55 years. From time with Jimmy Martin as a young man, through to today's latest edition of Quicksilver, Doyle has showed the world what