• Holidays with The High 48s

    Minnesota's High 48s have joined the ranks of bluegrass groups releasing Christmas music during the 2015 season. Their 10-track offering is entitled Holidays With The High 48s and represents a lighter look at Christmas classics from this popular Upper Midwest

  • Jeremy Garrett: A Session in The RV

    Nestled in The Festy backstage area in scenic Nelson County, Virginia sat The RV. You know which one. The one that should be declared a national park just like the ones it has been rolling past this year. To music-lovers, it

  • Lance LeRoy passes

    Lance LeRoy, a larger-than-life figure in bluegrass music has died. He passed away earlier today (December 17) at his son's home outside Nashville. LeRoy was 84 years of age. Though never a performer himself, he was a great lover of bluegrass

  • Jimmy Maynard passes

    Jimmy Maynard, a Blue Grass Boy in the early to mid-1960s, passed away on Tuesday morning, December 15, 2015, at his home in Lebanon, Tennessee, due to cancer.  He was 87 years old. James Howard ‘Jimmy’ Maynard was born on April

  • Cody Looper to Michael Cleveland

    Well... now we know why Cody Looper stepped away from Blue Mafia. Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper have announced this morning that Cody will be their new banjo player. He steps in to the spot recently vacated when Gaven Largent left the

  • One More Flight video from Sawtooth Brothers

    Minnesota's Sawtooth Brothers have released a video for the title track of their upcoming debut album, One More Flight. The band does feature a two pairs of brothers, but their names are actually Birtzer and Moravec. Clint Birtzer plays guitar and brother Luke

  • Pickin’ Party on Music City Roots tonight

    Nashville's Music City Roots is given over tonight to a 70th birthday celebration and pickin' party for John McEuen. It appears to be a big time planned to help celebrate the banjo picker and multi-instrumentalist who has spent 50 years