It has just been announced that Australia's Davidson Brothers will be inducted into the Australian Country Music Hall of Fame during the 2017 Tamworth Country Music Festival later this month. Hamish and Lachlan Davidson have been at the top of Australia's
Jeri Foreman has been announced today as the recipient of the 2016 Australian Bluegrass Scholarship. This award was established in 2011 by Hamish and Lachlan Davidson to encourage singers and musicians who demonstrate talent, dedication and leadership in the field of bluegrass
Oops. We missed another bluegrass wedding last month. Lachlan Davidson and Jade Bentley were married on February 12 in the town of Avenel in Victoria, about an hour north of Melbourne in southeastern Australia. Lachlan (Lachie to friends) is the mandolin and fiddle playing half
Hamish Davidson, the banjo-playing half of Australia's Davidson Brothers, has published Bluegrass Banjo Davidson Style, a book of banjo tabs from his recorded solos with the band. A total of 28 songs/tunes are included, each presented in hand-written, metered tablature. There
The Davidson Brothers have just released a music video from a song from their current Wanderlust CD. It features them and their band on Take Me To The Mountains, a song they wrote for the record. Lachlan Davidson is on mandolin, with
We heard last week from Greg Cahill, who shared a few words (and photos) about Special Consensus' recent trip Down Under. Special C made the first band trip to Australia last week to play the MountainGrass festival in Harriettville (about 4
When the nominees were announced for the 2015 Australian Golden Guitar awards on Monday, there was great news for Aussie grassers The Davidson Brothers. Their names were called in four separate categories, including song awards for two tracks from their current Wanderlust
During World of Bluegrass last month we took the opportunity to chat with The Davidson Brothers, who were in Raleigh as an official invited Showcase act. The boys travel from their native Australia to the USA every year or so,
While they generate headlines in their native Australia, The Davidson Brothers aren't nearly as well known in the US, something they hope to remedy with their showcase appearances at the 2014 World of Bluegrass convention coming up next month. And with
From the very beginning playing bluegrass music has been a very precarious job, even for the very, very talented. Bill Monroe worked at Sinclair Oil in the 1930s; Kenny Baker often went back to the coal mines even though he was
