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Earl Scruggs and his banjo playing prowess has been the subject of intense delight, interest, and discussion ever since he stepped onto the stage of the Grand Ole Opry with Bill Monroe in late 1945.  All of which has generated a

Shannon Slaughter & County Clare have a new music video for That Old County Road from their current album, Never Standing Still. It's a live take of the song, shot during the 5th Annual Trantham Farms Bluegrass at the Hangar in Alexandria,

When young Riley Gilbreath first came to the attention of the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation, he was just a 12 year old kid from Fort Worth, TX. He had applied for a starter banjo loaner through the Foundation's Play It Forward

Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys have announced a new single, out this Friday, and a new Gospel CD due in July. Unsurprisingly, the single is thick with the Stanley sound that his father personified all the years of

German banjo icon, Rüdger Helbig, has released another instruction book. This time it's a volume on open tunings and music theory called Offene Stimmungen und Akkorde für 5-String Banjo. Though all the text is in German, Rüdi feels that any banjo

The IBMA Foundation, based in Nashville, in participating in today's fundraising event, The Big Payback, as a member of The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Until midnight tonight (May 2), any donations made to the Foundation through the CFMT web site will

Last month we received what appeared to be very disturbing news that threatened the restoration of Bluegrass Country Soul, the iconic documentary film treatment of the 1971 Labor Day festival in Camp Springs, NC. In its newsletter at the time it was

The International Bluegrass Music Association in Nashville has announced the 30 artists and acts invited to showcase during their 2019 World of Bluegrass convention in Raleigh, NC later this summer. Showcase artists are selected in a competitive process each year for

Scott Slay is a bluegrass musician located in Denver, CO who has a new, self-titled album with his group, The Rail. He is an experienced multi-instrumentalist who pulled down 2nd place in both the mandolin and the guitar competitions at

The IBMA Foundation has asked us to remind everyone that the deadline to apply for the Rosenberg Bluegrass Scholarship Award for developing academic scholars in June 28, 2019. Formerly known as the IBMA Academic Prize, this award is given annually to