Music

With the big World of Bluegrass convention set to kick off next week in Raleigh, Mountain Home Music has a special batch of new music to share with the bluegrass community. So for the next few days, we'll have a

David Robinson, who has spent the past several years touring with Minnesota's Monroe Crossing on banjo, has announced that he will be scaling back his commitment with the band, to allow him to pursue some other interests and opportunities. This group

Rural Rhythm Records has released a second single from their new project with Steve Gulley & New Pinnacle, High Peaks and New Ground. It's a song Steve wrote with Tim Stafford called Leaning Toward Leaving, which trods the familiar ground of bluegrass

Together now for 25 years, Virginia's Nothin' Fancy is preparing to release their 16th studio album. For a group that was thrown together to enter a band competition in 1994, that's quite a run! Mountain Fever Records has a debut single

Grace Davis with Loose Strings - photo © Deb Miller, B Chord Photography Shannon Slaughter has announced that Grace Davis has joined his touring band, County Clare, playing bass. Grace has been playing bluegrass since she was in school, for the past

When Jacob Burleson took the mandolin position with Volume Five back in 2016, a few people wondered if this young fella would be up to the job. Not yet 18 years old when he took the gig, Jacob quickly demonstrated

North Carolina's Nick Chandler and Delivered has announced their newest member, Hudson Bosworth, who joins the band on guitar. Hudson is another example of the talent being developed in the Bluegrass, Old Time, Celtic, and Country music program at ETSU, and

Brown Loflin with his wife Ruby at the 2019 Denton festival - photo by Sandy Hatley The bluegrass community lost a friend and promoter on Tuesday. Brown Loflin, owner of the central NC based Denton FarmPark and home to Doyle Lawson

Thomm Jutz is the most recent prominent bluegrass songwriter to present himself as a vocalist as well. Jutz has been an A-list writer in Nashville for some time, since moving there in 2003 from his native Germany. He has written

Keith Case, former head of one of the most influential talent agencies managing roots and bluegrass music artists for the past 30 plus years, passed away on September 3, 2019. He was 79 years old.  Born on August 9, 1940, Case started