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Hank Smith, a banjo player from Raleigh, is a busy man. If playing gigs, keeping a steady stream of banjo students, forming a Béla Fleck tribute show, traveling to Wilkes County to study with Jens Kruger, and recently forming a

Our Czech bluegrass friend Kiki Otáhalová has shared a video she created during the 11th Winter Musician Camp hosted in the Low Tatras Mountains in the Slovak Republic. It's a limited attendance gathering of musicians and friends, held in a large

Great news for fans of Flatt Lonesome. The fresh-faced sextet has planned a special online concert for January 28 that allows them to combine two of their passions, and have a big time doing it. All the band members have become big

We're well into the new year, and it's plenty cold outside, which means that the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America convention in Nashville is right around the corner. Set for February 4-7 in the Sheraton Music City hotel, the

Music Camps North, who host the ever-popular Banjo Camp North and Mandolin Camp North each year, have named Phil Zimmerman as their new Director. The camps are held in Charlton, Massachusetts with a wide variety of instructors brought in to teach

Shannon and Heather Slaughter are celebrating this afternoon's birth of their second child, Jedediah Smith Slaughter. Shannon says that they will call him Jed. He came in at 2:57 p.m. (CST) weighing 7 lbs, 13 oz, and stretching to 20.5''. Shannon is

Paul Kowert, the remarkable young bassist with Punch Brothers, has signed on as a guest instructor with ArtistWorks, who offers online instruction for a variety of string instruments and styles. He has prepared nearly two dozen lessons for advanced players which

Spring Fed Records, a label associated with the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, has announced a January 15 release for Home Made Sugar and a Puncheon Floor, a CD of home recordings made by John Hartford and Howdy Forrester. Serious

We know that many of our readers are regular viewers of Reno's Old Time Music on RFD-TV. Each Saturday evening Ronnie Reno plays and sings the music he grew up on with his dad, Don Reno, and the classic songs of

Now that we’ve passed the 200 milestone with this column, I thought it might be good to have a review in the form of a quiz. I’ve actually done one of these quizzes a time or two before. The idea is