• Happy Halloween from Rhonda Vincent

    Over the years, Rhonda Vincent & The Rage have made a habit of dressing up as a band for Halloween, especially for Bluegrass Halloween events at the Fall Bluegrass Festival in Amelia, VA. She shared a few of the images of

  • Mike Conner hospitalized in Knoxville

    Mike Conner, bass player with The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, and popular Roanoke, VA musician, singer, and event producer, is currently hospitalized in Knoxville, TN after losing consciousness on Saturday. According to good friend and fellow musician John Miller, with whom

  • Jeremy Garrett talks RV Sessions 2

    The Infamous Stringdusters' Jeremy Garrett really is something of a rolling stone. Living as he does in a mobile recreational vehicle, he's not always able to be pinned down. But we caught up with him by phone a few weeks

  • Patrick McAvinue to Dailey & Vincent

    Dailey & Vincent have announced the addition of Baltimore fiddler Patrick McAvinue to their touring band. He takes the spot recently vacated by BJ Cherryholmes, who has travelled with the group this past six years. BJ and his wife, Devon, are

  • Via attacker pleads guilty in court

    On Monday we reported the news that Kenneth Lynn Seagroves, charged in a brutal, unprovoked assault on bluegrass singer/songwriter David Via in 2013, would face trial in the term that started this week in Burke County, NC. The attack struck all concerned

  • Uncut Grass festival to debut in June ’17

    The folks at Wilson Pickins Bluegrass Promotions have teamed up with the Cortland Country Music Park in New York's Finger Lakes region to launch a new bluegrass festival in the summer of 2017. The inaugural Uncut Grass Festival will debut June

  • Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass roots

    Reams, actual and virtual, has been written about Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass music roots. In his musically formative years, Garcia was a member of the Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers and the Asphalt Jungle Boys, both consisting of a fluid

  • The Blue, Brew & Que Festival debuts in NC

    The Duplin County Events Center in Kenansville, NC has announced that they will host the first annual Blue, Brew & Que Festival in the spring of 2017. This 2 day, Friday/Saturday festival will bring top names in bluegrass to eastern North Carolina on

  • Carolina Bluegrass Summit next month at UNC

    The Department of Music at the University of North Carolina and their Southern Folklife Collection will be hosting an academic seminar at the Chapel Hill campus as part of their new Bluegrass Initiative. The initiative is an effort to incorporate the