The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University held their final concert for 2017 recently, highlighting the work of the students studying to play bluegrass and old time music at the school. Under the direction of Raymond McLain, KCTM
Discovering young talent has been the most consistently rewarding aspect of Bluegrass Today. The opportunity to recognize a spark in its early stages, and watch it as it grows, is what keeps us hopeful for the future of acoustic string
The Infamous Stringdusters have released a music video from their latest release, Undercover, Vol. 2. The theme of the album, an EP, is Dusters covers of pop and rock songs that the band enjoys. This video is for their version of
Longtime Bluegrass Today readers have surely seen our earlier praise for Nefesh Mountain, a married couple from New Jersey who apply Jewish theology and liturgical music to the sounds of bluegrass. Doni Zasloff and Eric Lindberg perform all over the
The Kruger Brothers have released this lovely Christmas card in video form for all their friends and fans. It's a new song called December, about their life growing up in Switzerland, accompanied by photos of Jens and Uwe when they were
From east Tennessee comes a new secular Christmas song from Bill and The Belles, an annual tradition for the band, in their quirky, post-vaudeville/pre-bluegrass string band sound. This one was written by Kris Truelsen, a.k,a. Bill, with the assistance of his
One of the surest signs of how bluegrass has worked its way into the cultures of people outside the United States is the composition and performance of music not written in English. There are still bluegrass groups throughout Europe and
Mountain Fever Records has released a music video from Amanda Cook. It's for their second single from their current release, Deep Water, which tells the disturbing tale of Caleb Meyer, as written by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. The song manages
Last week during the semester-end concert at the Kentucky School of Bluegrass & Traditional Music, Bobby Osborne appeared with staff instructor Scott Napier and student Lauren Price presented a triple mandolin version of Jingle Bells, done bluegrass style. The school is located
This video is for all our readers who think that the old mountain sound has gone out of bluegrass music. Alex Leach is the banjo player and harmony vocalist with Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys. He is as
