Event Reviews

Lorraine Jordan on stage at her 2024 Bluegrass in the Blue Ridge festival - photo © Bill Warren The second Bluegrass in the Blue Ridge festival was presented by Lorraine Jordan at the Kingsport, TN Meadowview Conference center. The MC duties

Maxton Byrd, recipient of the 2024 Alan Perdue Award at the Seagrove Fiddlers'Convention with the Perdue family - photo © G. Nicholas Hancock The 69th Annual Seagrove Fiddlers’ Convention returned Saturday night to the small pottery town in central North Carolina.

This article is a contributions from Bluegrass Canada, the bluegrass music association of Canada, and their quarterly magazine by the same name. Editor Mike Higgins has promised to send us regular updates from the scene up north, and assures us

Dan Tyminski Band at the 2024 Big Bass Bluegrass & BBQ festival - photo © Bill Warren The city of Inverness is to be congratulated on putting on quite a show for folks in the surrounding area. The wonderful people at

This article was co-written by Xavier Cardús, one of the organizers of the camp. Photos are a contribution from Josep Ponsà. On March 1-2, 2024, the Associacio Bluegrass i Old-Time Al Ras (Al Ras) hosted the 9th annual Barcelona Bluegrass Camp in

David "Hambone" Hamlett, Brian Batten, Phil Wise, Clyde Mattocks, Pammy Davis Lassiter,and Kevin Tompkins at Lorraine's Coffee House (3/1/24) - photo © Laura Tate Ridge Saturday night, March 1, I had the pleasure of attending the Dr. Tom Langdon Memorial Show

Sicard Hollow at The RINO in Kansas City (2/10/24) - photo © Allison Scavo This report is a contribution from Allison Scavo of Scavo's Photos. Sicard Hollow is an upbeat funk bluegrass band with dips into almost punk rock. The groovy bass

Tony Trischka's EarlJam at the 2024 Wintergrass festival - photo © Dave Berry The folks at Wintergrass have, no surprise, done it again. Bringing together friends, new and old from far and wide to celebrate all variations of the music referred to as

Adam Haynes and Rhonda Vincent fiddle at the 2024 Florida Classic - photo © Bill Warren The 2024 edition of the Florida Classic is in the books. Some wind, some rain, some sunshine, and lots of enthusiastic fans marked this bluegrass

Swinging Bridge at the 2024 Florida Classic - photo © Bill Warren Ah, the Florida sunshine! Day 1 of the Florida Classic kicked off to bright sunshine and warm temperatures. Sherry Boyd took the MC reins and welcomed everyone to the show. Florida