Music

The Josh Williams Band has signed with booking agency, Roe Entertainment. Roe will now be handling all booking contacts for the band. Josh tells me he's happy with the band he's put together, and he's looking forward to letting people hear

In March we reported news of the agreement between the newly-formed Mountain Roads Recordings and the long-lived traditional band from southwest Virginia, Big Country Bluegrass. Now, we are informed that the first album resulting from that liaison, the premiere release from

Randy Kohrs sent along a few photos from his appearance on The Grand Ole Opry last weekend. Joining him were the members of The Randy Kohrs Band, Ashley Brown on fiddle and vocals, Mike Sumner on banjo, Elio Giordano on bass,

Pine Mountain Railroad, now owned and managed by Bryson City, North Carolina, born Cody Shuler, released an all-Gospel collection on July 15. Recently voted 2007 winner of the Bluegrass Gospel Song Of The Year award by Singing News magazine and backed

The five-piece bluegrass Gospel band Canaan's Crossing recently announced the release of their second Song Garden Music Group album. The self-titled collection (Song Garden SG-6023), which came available on July 1, consists of 12 songs mixing some songs that you

With the annual IBMA World Of Bluegrass convention coming up (9/29-10/2), a number of instructional workshops have been scheduled in Nashville during that same time frame. Students of bluegrass instruments can take advantage of these opportunities during their visit, especially

Blue Moon Rising will be releasing their latest album, One Lonely Shadow (Lonesome Day Records), on July 29. The East Tennessee based band, whose name is derived from the title of a newspaper article commemorating the life of the Father of

We heard recently from Daniel Grindstaff, banjo picker with Marty Raybon, with news about Marty's new CD and the band's recent travels. As many of our readers are aware, Raybon got his start as a bluegrass artist in Florida performing with

Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike begin their latest trip to Europe on Sunday with fives dates in England, followed by two in Ireland and one in Wales before playing a last show in England and then moving on to make

Tom Adams will be joining Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band on guitar as of September 5. We reported just two months ago that Tom was launching a new endeavor, Diamond Joe, with banjoist Chris Warner but that group has