Billy Strings and Bryan Sutton - photo © Joshua Black Wilkins With literally no warning, Billy Strings has released a surprise live album recorded last year in Nashville with fellow flatpicking monster, Bryan Sutton. It's plainly titled Live at the Legion, for
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Photos from the 2024 North Carolina Guitar Celebration
Jake Workman performs at the 2024 North Carolina Guitar Celebration - photo © Bryce LaFoon Bryce Lafoon made the trek to Brevard, NC over the weekend for the North Carolina Guitar Celebration, held at the conclusion of Bryan Sutton's Blue Ridge
Rhapsody in Blue(grass) from Béla Fleck
We shared the news last month that five string banjo maestro Béla Fleck was set to release a new album that explored the music of 20th century American composer George Gershwin, most prominently his masterwork, Rhapsody in Blue. Béla tackles
Telluride 50th anniversary thoughts from the artists who played
Jen Hughes has shared some final thoughts on this year's historic 50th anniversary of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, taken from brief interviews with 2023 performers Jerry Douglas, Bryan Sutton, Jeremy Garret, Stephen Mougin, and festival goer Greg Nadeau, who has
New Christmas track from Barefoot Movement with Bryan Sutton
The Barefoot Movement has brought their Covers for a Cause campaign to an end for 2022, in a lovely acoustic version of the 1944 classic, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, with the assistance of Bryan Sutton on guitar. Real oldsters
Bryan Sutton’s Blue Ridge Guitar Camp can finally be held in 2022
Bryan Sutton's Blue Ridge Guitar Camp, announced to great fanfare in 2019 for May 2020, will actually be able to take place in 2022 after two years of postponements due to COVID restrictions. The Camp, hosted at the Brevard Music Center
Béla Fleck’s My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021
Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart at FreshGrass 2021 - photo © Dave Hollender Our friend Dave Hollender was at the 2021 FreshGrass festival in North Adams, MA last month, and captured some great photos of Béla Fleck's My Bluegrass Heart show.
Me and His Guitars with Bryan Sutton and Friends remembers Tony Rice
Since the death of Tony Rice on Christmas day, the bluegrass and acoustic music world has reacted with a combination of shock and reverence. Rice had been a superstar in the music for so long, that even after his retirement
Introducing Bryan Sutton’s Blue Ridge Guitar Camp
Great news for flatpickers! Following on the two very successful years of the Blue Ridge Banjo Camp, hosted by Béla Fleck, The Brevard Music Center in western North Carolina has announced a companion effort for acoustic guitarists. The inaugural Blue Ridge
Skaggs’ guitar army unleashed on Grey Fox
On Friday night at the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Ricky Skaggs took advantage of the fact that three of his former guitarists were at the festival, and brought them all up for one big six string thrash. Of course, he's