Bluegrass print media news

Many of us in the United States often think of bluegrass as an American music, or even just a Southern music. However, as quite a few prominent bands, scholars, and even the name of our trade association will tell us,

Jimmy Martin is one of the few bluegrass artists who was probably known as much for his personality as he was for his music. His stubborn, no-holds-barred attitude and tendency to speak his mind – loudly - to whoever would

Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour - The Life and Music of Curly Seckler, will speak on Friday (May 19) at The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. She will talk about Curly's time with Flatt & Scruggs, his

Rick Cornish has shared another batch of his bluegrass cartoons, illustrate by Donna Miklica, from their new book, Bluegrass - Funnier Than It Sounds. See if you pick up a theme...Rick and Donna's book, with 160 pages of bluegrass humor, can

Melissa Auell is a banjo-playing mom in Colorado, who decided to take on the problem of not finding children's books about bluegrass music herself. Of course, it helps that she's a professional writer and illustrator already, with the necessary skills

Rick Cornish's book of bluegrass-themed cartoons, Bluegrass: Funnier Than It Sounds, is now available for sale. It contains 160 pages of clever illustrations sure to delight lovers and pickers of the music Bill Monroe left us. Long a fixture on the

Virginia's Crooked Road, the state's successful effort to use traditional mountain music as a tourist draw for dozens of southwest Virginia communities, is getting a nice boost from an unexpected place. The Furrow, a publication of the John Deere Company which

Banjo aficionados and Earl Scruggs devotees, in particular, will be enthused, nay, excited, by the news of a forthcoming book about the banjo innovator, Earl Scruggs: Banjo Icon, published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Earl Scruggs’s career as a banjo player

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

The Cantrells of Nashville are something of a power couple. He's the programmer and chief on-air voice for SiriusXM's Bluegrass Junction, and she's the Executive Assistant to Tennessee House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick. That's right... we're talking about Kyle and Becky