2021 Kilgore Station Bluegrass Festival
The 2021 Kilgore Station Bluegrass Festival is scheduled for August 27-28 in Cross Plains, TN. Featured acts include the Tennessee Mafia Jug Band, King’s Highway,...
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Rick Faris drops an old fashioned single – two new tracks from next album
Back in the day, when 78 and then 45 rpm vinyl disks were the way new music was made available to fans and radio alike,...
Hugh Moore – making music during the pandemic
Hugh Moore, an accomplished banjo picker from Raleigh, NC, learned how to utilize modern technology, to pick with friends, and share their collaborative music with others...
Track Premiere: Little Hometown from Mamma’s Marmalade
From New England comes Mamma's Marmalade, a newgrass quartet who formed while the founders were attending the University of Massachusetts. Their third album, Rabbit Analog, is...
Otto Wood, the Bandit by Trevor McKenzie
You've heard the song, now read the book! The University of North Carolina Press is preparing to release a new book by Trevor McKenzie about the...
California Report: Kathy Kallick on the Chicago years and the Good Ol’ Persons
Photos of Kathy Kallick and The Kathy Kallick Band by Irene Young Kathy Kallick has won a Grammy, two IBMA Awards, and is a recipient of a Lifetime Membership from the...
Country Cooking – a look back 50 years hence
Every so often a group of musicians is assembled that presage something important, perhaps stellar careers in the making, a new sound for an established...
Sierra Hull shares a bill with Greensky Bluegrass in Michigan
When COVID-19 forced Greensky Bluegrass to cancel its June Camp Greensky Music Festival for a second year in a row, the Kalamazoo-based band vowed to...
From The Side of the Road… a dumb column sent by my iPhone
Out of necessity, I'm afraid this column is being composed on a less-than-current iPhone (I received no compensation from Apple for saying that, though I...
Two new banjo instructional videos from Ned Luberecki
We have often accused Ned Luberecki of being among the busiest guys in bluegrass. In addition to playing banjo with the Becky Buller Band, he...
