The eyes and ears of the bluegrass industry were focused this morning on the Nashville headquarters of SiriusXM's country and bluegrass operation for the announcement of the 2023 nominees for the IBMA Bluegrass Music Awards. These prestigious awards are determined by
Dark Shadow Recording has a music video for Becky Buller's current single, a duet with Jim Lauderdale on the Reno & Smiley classic, Wall Around Your Heart. Buller said last month that she first heard this heartbreak song from the Bluegrass
The International Bluegrass Music Association is teaming up with Martin Guitar and online guitar instructor Marcel Ardans to bring a new guitar picking contest to this year's World of Bluegrass in Raleigh, NC. Entitled Picking for the Prize, the competition will
Todd Taylor, everyone's favorite rock 'n' roll banjo player, has a new single and video, his take on the monster Mason Williams hit from 1968, Classical Gas. Though he's equally adept at picking bluegrass style, which is how he learned as
Richard Hawkins, the editor of The Bluegrass Ireland Blog since November 2005, has announced his forthcoming retirement from this role. In a statement on the Blog, he indicated ….. "I intend to give up work on the Bluegrass Ireland Blog (BIB)
Kyle Cantrell's new bluegrass radio streaming service, BanjoRadio.com, will officially launch on Friday morning at 6:00 a.m. CDT. The service has actually been running in beta this past few weeks to test all the equipment, and he feels that all
Bonfire Music Group has a final single release for Danny Burns ahead of his latest album, Promised Land, which is due next month. Danny is an Irish-born singer who has made the transition to the US with his family, where he
Do you remember the short story of Rip Van Winkle, the mythical character who over-imbibed and "fell asleep" for 20 years? What a shock when Ol' Rip finally woke up! The entire world had changed . . . a lot! Imagine
The Rick Dollar Show bluegrass podcast has been picked up by iHeart Radio, among the largest distributors of digital music, radio content, and podcasts in the world. The hour long radio program, which almost always includes an interview with a noted
A third single is available this week from Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, a real bluegrass barnburner from her soon-to-be-released sophomore project with the band. San Joaquin is a new, old style railroad song which gives Tuttle and her group of
