Arthur Conner passes
Arthur Conner, celebrated violin maker in southwestern Virginia, died yesterday at his home in Copper Hill, VA. He was 95 years of age. He was something...
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2020 IBMA Awards balloting on track to start tomorrow
With so much up in the air these days as a result of restrictions related to virus mitigation, ballots and elections have become a sensitive...
Lester Woodie remembered
Lester Woodie passed away on March 23, 2018, at Lynchburg General Hospital Lynchburg, Virginia. He was 86 years old and had been ailing with Alzheimer’s...
Watauga Miner video from banjo man Mike Scott
CMS Records has released a new single and music video from bluegrass veteran Mike Scott. Mike has been working in the music business for nearly 50...
Lizzy Long recovering after serious auto accident
Lizzy Long, one half of the popular bluegrass act Little Roy & Lizzy, was in a frightful automobile accident on Friday afternoon. Long was alone in...
California Report: Songwriter Maureen “Mo” Blumenthal
Maureen Blumenthal is a third generation San Francisco Bay Area native and a mainstay of the California bluegrass community. She’s a West Coast Songwriter award-winning...
Dear Mr. Bluegrass Manners – quarantine edition encore
Mr. Bluegrass Manners was deluged with quarantine-related etiquette questions, not only because we’re all in uncharted territory now and have plenty of questions about it,...
Randy Scruggs’ Scruggs Sound Studios reopens in Nashville
Close followers of the Nashville music scene will recall that Randy Scruggs, the late middle son of the great Earl Scruggs, had until his passing...
Nick Chandler & Delivered make the most out of quarantining
If you spend any time on social media, you have probably encountered one of these new types of videos, with members of some sort of...
Ask Sonny Anything… Did you teach Hank Jr to play banjo?
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the iconic Osborne Brothers who...
