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  • Junior Sisk Week in Rocky Mount

    File this one under local boy makes good... Junior Sisk accepted a major award this week in his hometown of Rocky Mount, VA, where the Town...

  • Bluegrass dream analysis redux

    This column from Chris Jones is a reprise of one from March 2012 - with a new introductory paragraph. Some time ago, I published a list...

  • Second Street in O’boro to be renamed?

    Nashville has its Music Row and Memphis has its Beale Street. Both are instantly recognizable for specific genres of music associated with them —and country...

  • Podunk taking 2013 off

    Bluegrass fans in central Connecticut will be without a primary destination event this season. For the past 16 years, the Podunk Bluegrass Music Festival has...

  • Jim Gabehart elected Prosecutor

    We may not have actually elected a President of Bluegrass this week - though it was great fun pretending - but there is one election...

  • LocalGrass – Bellamy Hardware

    If you’ve ever visited the small town of Surgoinsville, Tennessee and traveled down Main Street, you probably didn’t pay much attention to the modest old...

  • CD release concert for Papertown

    Balsam Range held their CD release concert for their new album Papertown on Friday, August 10th at the beautiful Colonial Theater in the paper town of...

  • You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

    This post is a contribution from Mountain Heart lead vocalist Josh Shilling. He describes how the band went from what was expected to be an...

  • Big news from IBMM

    The International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, KY has just won a major vote of confidence from the city government. After a presentation this afternoon from...