Blue Summit accepts their Best Bluegrass Band award at the 2019 Northern California Bluegrass Awards The winners of the Northern California Bluegrass Awards were announced over this last weekend by the Northern California Bluegrass Society during their annual Bluegrass on Broadway
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves have released a live performance video for the opening track from their upcoming eponymous banjo/fiddle duet project. Both women have built solid reputations in the old time music community, and have performed together in the
Chosen Road has released a new single this week, the first from their upcoming Poor Mountain Records album, Appalachian Worship, expected later this year. The single is part of a collaboration project between the band and The North American Mission Board, an
When Po' Ramblin' Boys were out in California last year for the Huck Finn Fest, they performed a short set for the Jam In The Van folks. JITV travels all over the US in a specially-retrofitted recreational vehicle, set up as
NewTown has a new music video for Long Hard Road, one of the songs on their current album, Old World, with Mountain Home Music Company. The Lexington-based band is rooted by the husband-and-wife team of Jr Williams and Kati Penn Williams,
It may be only January, but plans and schemes are already being laid for the 2019 World of Bluegrass convention, hosted by the International Bluegrass Music Association in Raleigh, NC in late September. Artists interested in showcasing at this industry-wide event
Fiddler George Jackson has come a long way in his short life. All the way from New Zealand to Nashville to be exact, where he plys his trade as a member of Missy Raines & The New Hip. Like many schooled
It's been interesting to watch all the different directions into which bluegrass music has expanded. We now have a sub-genre that incorporates traditional country, one that embraces the high energy and stage zaniness of rock, plus the new acoustic style
2019 Pioneers of Missouri Bluegrass: Frank Ray, Alma Curtner (for Herman Beck), Andy Bressler, Alvin Bressler, Ken Seaman, Cecil Tinnon (for Paul Tinnon) On Friday, January 4, six first generation Missouri musicians were awarded plaques proclaiming them as Pioneers of Missouri Bluegrass Music.
If you've visited the main page of the mega-search site Google this week, you'll have seen this lovely tribute to the great Earl Scruggs at the top of the page. It was created as part of their This Day In History