Midwest bluegrass promoter, bandleader, and performer Lori King has announced a new member of her touring band, Junction 63. Kailee Spickes has joined the band on fiddle. Hailing from Mountain View, AR, Kailee is a skilled multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, mandolin, banjo,
On April 1, North Carolina singer/songwriter Josh Hudson won first place for the third time in four years in the Don Gibson Singer Songwriter Symposium in Shelby, NC. The Sandy Ridge resident took the top prize in 2020 and 2021,
It is always interesting to discover how bluegrass artists get involved in the music. Some grow up with it in their family, with a parent in a performing band, or as member of such a group themselves. Others discover it
Bluegrass fans generally enjoy a well written Civil War song, and that's just what Daniel Crabtree has delivered with his latest single for Bell Buckle Records. In Cold Harbor, Crabtree paints a bleak picture of a day in 1864 with the
Ivan Tribe, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Rio Grande, scholar of Appalachian culture, and a renowned expert on traditional country and bluegrass music, passed away on Tuesday April 4, 2023, after a recent spell in hospital. He
Broken Compass, the talented young jamgrass outfit turning heads all along the west coast, have just released their first studio recording, Fool's Gold, and have offered to share the title track with our readers in celebration. The band began as a
Bonfire Music Group has a new single this week for banjo man Daniel Grindstaff, an instrumental with a message of love and support. Titled Three Arrows, it's a straight ahead banjo tune in the bluegrass vein, but Daniel says that it
This remembrance of Japanese bluegrass artist and scholar Toru Mitsui is a contribution from Neil V. Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. It will also appear in Japan's Moon Shiner magazine. Toru Mitsui
Surely one of the most influential bluegrass groups of the 1970s was Lost & Found, based in Ferrum, VA. They toured all across the US and Canada, and had remained active up until a few years ago when founding bassist
Pamm Gadd has a long history in bluegrass music as a player, singer, and songwriter. While many people's primary memory of Gadd was her time with Wild Rose in the late '80s and early '90s, she had been active in
