Last month we shared the latest single from Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen, a song called Hold On, the title track from his upcoming Compass Records project, set for release this Friday. Now we have a music video of the track,
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Molly Burns video from Crandall Creek
Crandall Creek, a multi-generational bluegrass band based in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, has accomplished one of the rarest feats in the music industry - harder even than keeping a family band together as the siblings become adults. They have evolved
Earl Scruggs Center acquires Earl’s Ruben banjo for new exhibit
Earl Scruggs playing his Jim Faulkner Mark V Ruben banjo with the Earl Scruggs Revue The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC has acquired a custom banjo made for Earl Scruggs by Jim Faulkner for their newest exhibit on the Earl
IBMA announces 2023 Leadership Bluegrass Class
The International Bluegrass Music Association has today announced the 2023 class for their annual Leadership Bluegrass program, an intensive three-day course for industry professionals, held in Nashville in early spring. 25 applicants are chosen in a competitive process, based on potential
Rudy Lyle: The Unsung Hero of the Five-String Banjo – interview with the author
Max Wareham is a man on a mission. His new book, Rudy Lyle: The Unsung Hero of the Five-String Banjo, uncovers the story of an artist with a profound influence on the ongoing trajectory of bluegrass music, and specifically the
Bill Clifton with friends at 1993 Takarazuka Bluegrass Festival in Japan
Many thanks to Kaz Inaba in Japan for sharing this historic video of Bill Clifton when he visited Japan in 1993, and performed at the Takarazuka Spring Bluegrass Festival. The festival has been hosted since 1972 by Saburo and Toshio Watanabe,
I Am The River Wild video from Jeremy Garrett
Jeremy Garrett, dynamic fiddler, vocalist, and songwriter with Infamous Stringdusters, has a music video for his current single with Organic Records, I Am The River Wild. For nearly the entire time Garrett has been with the 'Dusters, he has pursued a
Bluegrass Saturday Night radio show gets new host
Julie Brown, bassist with the Bluegrass Experience and Hindsight Bluegrass, is the new host for eastern North Carolina's Bluegrass Saturday Night on Sanford's WLHC and Sharpsburg's WLQC Life 103.1 FM stations. Airing 6:00-8:00 p.m. (ET) each Saturday evening, Brown stepped
53rd annual Dove Awards nominees
Nominees were announced on Friday for the 53rd annual Dove Awards, celebrating the outstanding achievements of artists in the Christian music industry. The awards are a project of the Gospel Music Association, whose members choose the winners. Awards are given in
Video Premiere: Heyday from Lonesome River Band
Mountain Home Music has a new music video today for Lonesome River Band, the title track of their recently released project, Heyday. LRB has quite a history in bluegrass, starting in the early 1980s, and with 25 albums available online. Current