Members of the IBMA Songwriters Committee will conduct a workshop next weekend during the 34th annual Joe Val Bluegrass Festival in Framingham, MA. Three members of the committee, Rick Lang, David Morris, and Dawn Kenney, will lead the workshop, which will will
Famed Nashville Country music song-writer Sanger D. ‘Whitey’ Shafer passed away this past Saturday, January 12, 2019, following a long illness. He was aged 84 and had struggled with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for a few years. Born in Whitney, Texas, on
Longtime bluegrass and country music songwriter Tom T Hall has been announced as a 2019 inductee into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Tom T, or simply "T" as he is known to his friends in the business, enjoyed a long and
Bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang has announced that the recipient of the 1st annual Rick Lang Music Scholarship is Alexis Hamilton-Mele. As a writer, Rick has had his songs recorded by dozens of bluegrass acts, from Junior Sisk to IIIrd Tyme Out,
Paula Breedlove is a rarity in the song-writing fraternity in that she doesn’t play a musical instrument. So, she worked hard at perfecting her lyrics. She studied the works of Nashville’s country music song-writers, and began studying the Country music
Bob Amos is best known for fronting the Colorado-based band Front Range that played together during the period from 1988 through to 2004, during which period they released seven albums. Amos wrote roughly 75% of the songs recorded by Front Range,
Donna Ulisse, Ali Shumate, and Kathy Sacra Anderson as Shumate signs with Hadley Music Group Ali Shumate, a bluegrass singer and songwriter from West Palm Beach, FL, has signed with the Hadley Music Group in Nashville. Hadley will publish her music
Award-winning songwriter Louisa Branscomb is stepping up to help musicians and music lovers in Southport, NC, a coastal town that was ravaged by Hurricane Florence. Branscomb got to know many area residents when her non-profit organization, ScreenDoor Songwriter Alliance, hosted an
About the time that Tom T and Dixie Hall were being announced as new members of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame on Wednesday – cause for joy for songwriters everywhere – the writing community was hit with sad news.
Beloved bluegrass songwriter Pete Goble died today in Michigan. He was 86 years of age. Excluding Bill Monroe, Carter Stanley, and Flatt & Scruggs, it is unlikely that anyone has contributed as many songs to the bluegrass canon as Pete. Both