Christmas Music

When celebrated singer, songwriter, and storyteller Grant Maloy Smith published his children's book earlier this year, he recognized that its story simply cried out for a song. So he wrote one, and since his target audience was young readers, he

The Purple Hulls are a pair of identical twin sisters, Katy and Penny Clark, in northeastern Texas who play and sing bluegrass and acoustic Americana music. Their latest album is a Christmas album, called A Christmas Album, which features a mix

Alan Munde and Billy Bright have shared this lively arrangement of one of the oldest Christmas carols in the English tradition. The common lyrics telling the nativity story, What Child Is This, are actually a more contemporary addition to the much

Bluegrass and Gospel music lovers in southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia have a special treat coming this weekend. Chosen Road is hosting their Hometown Christmas concert in Princeton this Saturday night. In addition to your hosts with their contemporary bluegrass

Sally Berry is as bluegrass as they come. She works full time in a touring bluegrass show, is married to an award-winning fiddler, and her mom is the Queen of Bluegrass, one Rhonda Vincent. Sally also has a degree in

The Cody Sisters of Colorado had an idea for a holiday treat for people who don't like regular Christmas music. Is there such an animal? The girls took their guitars in hand, and worked up a swinging instrumental version of Rudolph

This remembrance from the recording of Epilogue: a Tribute to John Duffey comes from Akira Otsuka. Together with Ronnie Freeland, he spent 15 years recording this loving tribute to a bluegrass legend, who was also a dear friend to Akira. It is

The 615 Hideaway, an online television program featuring the top music in Nashville, is doing a bluegrass Christmas special today with many of the artists who performed on Rural Rhythm Records' A Very Merry Bluegrass Christmas album, released earlier this

Mandolin maestra Sierra Hull has announced a special string of dates in December with a holiday theme. Billed as the Christmas Time Is Here tour, it will include four stops in the central and southeastern US that will also involve

For the 15th year in a row, bluegrass songwriter Rick Lang will take his acoustic Christmas in New England show through the northeastern states. He's assembled a cast of bluegrass veterans to play and sing, and prepared a nice mix of