Bluegrass Videos

The Boston area’s prime bluegrass event, The Joe Val Bluegrass Festival, is coming up in a few weeks and a lot of folks in the northeast are making preparations to attend. We'll have a correspondent/photographer there for the first time

When we posted last Monday about Monroeville's alter ego, the cleverly-named Tex-Mex, Platorapido, we mentioned that they were scheduled to sing the National Anthem this weekend at an SEC basketball game in Knoxville. Unfortunately, network coverage rarely includes the singing of

A few years ago we reported regularly on a young sibling trio from Georgia, who performed as The Lovell Sisters. Jessica, Rebecca and Megan Lovell were teen pickers and singers who turned quite a few heads with their lovely voices

Rural Rhythm has begun releasing editions of their BlueHighways TV show, Behind The Dream, as online videos. The half hour program debuted last Fall, with Mike Scott serving as host. Each episode features a Rural Rhythm artist, combining one-on-one interviews with

Our friends at The Bluegrass Situation have posted this charming video of Sam Bush and Del McCoury, recorded prior to their debut duet show at The Birchmere back on November 18. It captures the two old friends backstage before the show,

Due in part to the pivotal town of Bristol, northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia have long been known as one of the locations where traditional country music was founded. Bristol, the location of the 1927 recording sessions which put The

The Deadly Gentlemen are part of the eclectic acoustic music scene in and around Boston, using the instrumentation common to a bluegrass band to create music that Mr. Monroe never imagined. The band is the brainchild of banjoist Greg Liszt, who

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with a look at this weekend's festival weather report, along with a heads up about some other important events coming your way in 2013.  

Dave Adkins & Republik Steele, recent Rural Rhythm signees, are celebrating the new label association with a single from their upcoming album, That's Just The Way I Roll, produced by Steve Gulley. It is expected early in the new year. The band

How about some uncompromisingly old school bluegrass for your Christmas week? Here's Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass belting out The Old Swinging Bridge recently at an after-show concert during the 2012 Pickathon festival in Portland, OR.   The video was shot by