Music

Award winning dobro player and band leader, Randy Kohrs, has just added a couple new faces to the line up of his band, The Lites. UPDATE: We just heard from Ashley Brown, Randy's fiddle player, that the band name has been

Who says you can't go home again? Special Consensus mandolinist Ashby Frank is profiled in his hometown paper, The Lexington Dispatch, in Davidson County, NC. Ashby was raised in nearby Tyro, and is given the hero's welcome in the this lengthy

Later today, we'll be selecting the winners in our Take This Hammer, Mashville Brigade promotion here on Bluegrass Today. There's still a little time left, so be sure to enter to win autographed copies of their new CD, Bluegrass Smash Hits

Western North Carolina-based bluegrass artists High Windy will release their debut project, A Greater Storm, May 20th on the Mountain Home label. Named for a sweeping ridge line near their home in Asheville, NC, High Windy is one of that area's

After coming in 3rd place last week in the online voting, Mountain Heart's video for Road That Never Ends is once again in the running for CMT Pure 12-Pack Countdown. The video is is for the title track of the

Popular old time banjoist Mary Z. Cox has released her latest CD, Florida Banjo, featuring her take on 15 fiddle tune classics. Joining her are Kerry Blech on fiddle, Ellen Sheppard on mandolin and guitar, Bob Cox on guitar, Lo Gordon

Recently we reported news of the forthcoming CD by Sierra Hull. Now, with the impending release next month, plans for the promotional push are falling into place. ASCAP and Rounder Records are jointly extending an invitation for folks to attend the

Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, TN, has announced the signing of the Elkville String Band from North Wilkesboro, NC. The band consists of Herb Key, Jeff Michael, Drake Walsh and Bill Williams, and was formed in 2001 to perform the music

If you missed last week's episode of Wife Swap on ABC - which featured bluegrass family The Stockdales as one of the participants - don't despair. As might have been expected, the show has appeared on YouTube, broken into five

Travis Book, bass player and singer with The Infamous Stringdusters, has been engaged by the folks at CMT.com's County Music Blog to report from the road during their upcoming European tour. The 'Dusters will spend the entire month of May