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CMH Records has dug deep into their vaults for another classic album of yesteryear, and pulled out Arthur Smith and Don Reno's 1979 record, Feudin' Again, for a digital reissue. The label tells us that this release, set for this

The Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC will be hosting a very special workshop next March, billed as the Earl Experience Banjo Camp. Scheduled for March 7-8, 2025, the Experience will feature two days of instruction in the banjo playing and

Mountain Home Music has a fun, summertime song from banjo player, songwriter, and vocalist Gina Furtado, one called Pigtails and Sugarcane, recorded with her two sisters. The song comes from a real experience Gina had, which brought to mind the time

Chris Eldridge at the Celebration of Life for Ben Eldridge - photo © Jeromie Stephens This past Sunday, September 29, friends and family gathered in Fredericksburg, VA to honor the memory of Ben Eldridge, legendary founding banjo player with The Seldom

Former Blue Grass Boy banjoist, Bill Simpson, 90, of Oakboro, NC, passed away on September 18, 2024.  In a 2017 interview, the multi-instrumentalist shared with me his history in music. "At twelve years old, my Uncle Jim taught me to play

This recollection of Jimmy Martin's lessons to his heralded banjo player Chris Warner is a contribution from Thomas Cook. Chris is widely regarded as one of the finest exemplars of the Jimmy Martin style on banjo, behind only J.D. Crowe

Ivan Rosenberg - photo © Mike Melnyk This article is another recurring contribution from Bluegrass Canada, the quarterly magazine of the Bluegrass Music Association of Canada. Editor Mike Higgins has promised to send us updates from the scene up north. This one

We've seen a bunch of new Bible-based instrumentals of late from banjo pickin' pastor Steve Bruce, who leads the congregation at Faith Way Assembly Of God in LaFollette, TN. Now he's back with a full band, made up of family

Danny Stewart, bluegrass multi-instrumentalist, bass player with US Navy Band Country Current, and proprietor of Turtle Hill Banjo Co., shared word of his adventures in South Africa last month. He was on the trail of an all original 1939 Gibson

Tabitha and David Benedict, one of bluegrass music's latest power couples, welcomed their first child earlier this summer. The two perform together as The Foreign Landers, and with Tabitha's brothers as Cup O'Joe. Both are first rate instrumentalists, and Tabitha