Music

Valerie Smith has announced the departure of her long-time musical partner, Becky Buller. For the past decade Becky has played fiddle and banjo, provided lead and harmony vocals with Valerie's band, Liberty Pike, and both wrote and co-wrote much of the

Thanks to a grant from The Foundation For Bluegrass Music, The Gaston School of the Arts in Gastonia, North Carolina will be hosting The Bluegrass Project on October 14-15, 2011. The project consists of activities for both students and teachers,

Chris Jones, Sirius-XM radio personality, touring bluegrass singer/songwriter, and beloved Bluegrass Today columnist, has been hospitalized in Europe. He and his group, The Nightdrivers, had just concluded a European tour and Chris was preparing to depart for a flight home when

I attended the Tennessee Fall Homecoming at the Museum of Appalachia over the weekend. While there I managed to catch up with three different bands that share a common thread. The Quebe Sisters Band, Southern Raised and The Bates Family

After an eight year gap since their last release Eddie and Martha Adcock, TwoGrass, have a new album on the market. As the credits show on the CD the Adcocks are assisted on this self-produced Patuxent Music release, Many a Mile,

We just heard from Ryan Cavanaugh, letting us know that he will be filling in for Scott Vestal this week with the Sam Bush Band. Scott is under the weather, and Ryan is johnny-on-the-spot when you need a progressive banjo picker

My wife and I recently held a bluegrass festival, Gabefest, and among the bands we booked was a newer group of talented young musicians, Monroeville. One of the reasons we chose them was the fact that we knew they had performed

Another bit of news that came out following the 2011 World of Bluegrass convention is word of two new signings to Mountain Fever Records. Both Travers Chandler & Avery County and The Heather Berry & Tony Mabe Show will release their

Last week saw the release of Friends Of Fall from Crooked Still. It's a short-form project, a 7-song EP, created in celebration of the eclectic string band's 10th Anniversary. The band spent three days this summer at Rotary Records studios in West

Missy Raines, who has faced more than her share of criticism for straying beyond the bounds of bluegrass in recent years, is in the formative stages of putting together a new album that won’t appease any of her critics. The idea