With founding member John Bowman having announced his departure from The Boxcars earlier this month, the band has today welcomed new member Gary Hultman to the group. Gary is a student in the Bluegrass, Country & Old Time Music program at East Tennessee State
Some of the biggest bluegrass fun I remember from the 1980s was watching Hot Rize on stage, often with their alter egos, Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers. You could always depend on some solid bluegrass, a good dose of old old
Randy Cook & Commonwealth Bluegrass has welcomed fiddler Wally Hughes as an official member of the band. Hughes has been doing some shows with Randy and the gang since they started playing together recently, and Cook is very pleased to have him onboard. "We
Slovak banjoist Richard Cifersky will be visiting the US again later this month. He will serve as a staff instructor during Acoustic Music Week at Lincoln Memorial University, and perform with east Kentucky's Velvet Blue while he's over. Richard plans to be in the States
John Bowman, one of the five founding members of bluegrass supergroup The Boxcars, has announced that he is leaving the band. Over the past few years, Bowman has been increasingly focusing his energy towards preaching and singing in churches, often
Gene Johnson, a founding member of country group Diamond Rio - and a former mandolinist/vocalist with J.D. Crowe & the New South - is set to undergo open heart surgery in June, with Chris Davis, recently of Junior Sisk &
When we reported in March that Russ Carson had been picked as the new banjo picker with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, we noted that he officially was coming on board on a 90 day trial basis. Those of us well familiar
Canaan’s Crossing has welcomed reso-guitarist Damion Kidd into the band, filling the spot vacated by mandolinist Josh Palmer. Bassist Tim Maze says that the band has had their eye on Kidd for some time, and recently decided to try replacing a mando
High Ground, a contemporary bluegrass band in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, is on the hunt for a new rhythm guitarists and vocalist. Larry Taylor, who is a founding member, is leaving the group after ten years. The guys have released four albums
Sad news for fans of Swedish bluegrass group, Downtown Ramblers. The band has announced today that they will no longer be performing together after an eight year run that found them touring across Europe and in the US. In recent years,
