Bluegrass television news

One of the gems of the live acoustic music scene is a small venue in the tiny town of Floyd, VA. Yes, the same town that hosts the mega FloydFest most years. But while FloydFest is a huge celebration of

Lost River Sessions, the Emmy-winning live music program from Western Kentucky University PBS and WKU Public Radio will be filming an episode next week from the Bluegrass Music Hall of fame & Museum in Owensboro, KY. We have mentioned in past

My Bluegrass Story, the RFD television program produced in Owensboro, KY by the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum and the Tanner+West agency, has been nominated for an Emmy Award. The nomination is in the Arts and Popular Culture

WoodSongs Kids has hit radio air waves and is set to be broadcast on public television this month. Folksinger, Michael Johnathon, and his 8-year-old daughter, Makayla, host the new 30-minute spin-off of his popular Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour series. "It's

A profile on bluegrass fiddle wizard Michael Cleveland, and his new album on Compass Records, Lovin' of the Game, is set to run tonight (March 7) on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt at 6:30 p.m. (ET). Michael sat with NBC

While football fans came away impressed by former Steeldriver Chris Stapleton singing the national anthem at last night's Super Bowl, he wasn't the only bluegrass artist on sports television over the weekend. Saturday found Darin & Brooke Aldridge in Chapel Hill,

Big news last week for one of the few nationally-syndicated television programs that regularly features live bluegrass music. Song of the Mountains, produced this past 18 years in Marion, VA, was awarded a grant of $120,000 from the Virginia Tobacco

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway will be appearing on tonight's (1/6) episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC Television. Molly is the rare bluegrass artist who grew up playing the music with her family's band, only to detour as a

Todd Mayo, producer of the popular PBS television series, Bluegrass Underground, has announced a new show set to debut in January 2023. Ear To The Common Ground has a simple and laudable goal, to use music as a way to bridge

Noted bluegrass artist Ron Block appeared on local Nashville television yesterday to talk about his new book, Abiding Dependence: Living Moment by Moment in the Love of God, which we covered earlier this month. Ron, of course, has played banjo and