Event Reviews

Nothin' Fancy with Rhonda Vincent at the Nothin' Fancy Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 21st Nothin’ Fancy Festival is off and running. Sherry Boyd has taken the MC position, one of the most highly respected MCs in the business.

Seth Mulder & Midnight Run at the 2023 Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 23rd Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival is in the books leaving many, many great memories. Joe And Mitzi Soward are to be congratulated on another

The Clover Pickers at the 2023 Earl Scruggs Music Festival - photo © G. Nicholas Hancock From its inception and inaugural Labor Day weekend event in 2022, The Earl Scruggs Music Festival and the Tryon International Equestrian Center located in Mill

Appalachian Road Show at the 2023 Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival - photo © Bill Warren The 23rd Dumplin Valley Bluegrass Festival kicked off Thursday afternoon in Kodak, TN. Joe and Mitzi Soward host the festival on their farm where they operate a

Jamie Johnson and Terry Smith with The Grascals at Carolina Bible Camp - photo © David Johnson The 11th annual Bluegrass Festival at the Carolina Bible Camp & Retreat Center in Mocksville, NC came off without a hitch earlier this month,

The Gibson Brothers at the 2023 Thomas Point Beach Festival - photo © Dale Cahill The 44th Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival was held under blue skies this year. Thomas Point's typically enthusiastic crowd of veterans and newcomers filled the seats

Fast Track at the Kentuckians of Michigan (9/1/23) - photo © Bill Warren Fast Track spent the Labor Day weekend performing in Canada. They passed through Detroit on Friday evening and stopped at the Kentuckians of Michigan and did a show. The

Junior Sisk at the 2023 Camp Springs Labor Day festival - photo © Laura Tate Photography "This was our fifth year," Camp Springs promoter, Cody Johnson, shared on Sunday night at the close of the Labor Day weekend festival. "It continues

Cindy and Terry Baucom/Ronald Smith at the '23 Labor Day Bluegrass Festival - photo © Gary Hatley Today marks day one of Camp Springs three-day Labor Day bluegrass festival. Cody and Donna Johnson purchased the park, site of the first bluegrass

From 1975-1984, Tom Knowles and his band Appalachian Reign were fixtures in the Washington, DC bluegrass scene. Performing primarily at local night spots and festivals on the East Coast, Appalachian Reign consisted of various instrumentalists and vocalists throughout their nine