Bluegrass band news

The Becky Buller Band will also have a new look for 2017. This afternoon she has announced the departure of guitarist Brandon Bostic, with Nate Lee coming on board to play mandolin and fiddle, and fiddler Dan Boner moving over

On Friday night in Nashville, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent celebrated the start of their 10th year performing together, and their 100th time playing on the Grand Ole Opry. It was a festive time for the boys, well-steeped in the

Sideline has announced that Troy Boone will be their new mandolin player, stepping in for Brian Aldridge who left the band in October. Troy is currently a student in the Bluegrass, Old Time, & Country Music Studies department at ETSU in

This article is a contribution from Budd Walker, a blogger and photographer based in Oklahoma City, OK. We hope to have regular contributions from Budd in 2017 as he visits festivals and other bluegrass events in the central parts of

Czech grassers G-runs 'n Roses have announced some changes in their lineup for next year. Guitarist Ondra Kozak is leaving to focus his energies on his new group, New Aliquot, and banjo player Ralph Schut is moving over to the guitar

Jacob Burleson has been announced as the new mandolinist with Volume Five. He will join the group effective January 28 when they perform at Everett’s Music Barn in Suwanee, GA. Jacob has been around bluegrass music all his life, growing up

The Bluegrass Brothers, super hard-driving traditionalists from Catawba, VA, will have a new look for 2017. Well, actually... it's more a return to an older look for the group. John Simmons, who had been playing guitar and singing with the Brothers,

John Bryan, the newest member of The Grascals, had to undergo an emergency appendectomy last night at the hospital near his home in Boone, NC. The band was performing Saturday night at the Mountaineer Opry House in Milton, WV and John

When Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny Drifters take the stage in 2017. Banjo player Jim Scott has left the group, and they've made a two-for-one swap, bringing in the husband/wife team of Michele Kirkby-Vance on fiddle and Radford Vance on banjo to fill his spot. The

Melanie Wilson with Wilson Pickins Promotions has announced the addition of bluegrass singer Ray Cardwell to her stable of artists. Ray has returned to pursue a career in our music following a layoff of several years, after having dedicated much of his youth