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Sometimes it feels like we've watched the Bankester family grow up on stage. When we first caught wind of their bluegrass show, there were four young girls on stage with their proud parents. Now it's down to three, and they've

Just when you think the talented Meyer family from Missouri has infiltrated every corner of bluegrass music, we see this new video of Mary Meyer produced by Corey Smith and War Against Silence to prove there's even more to this musical

The Kevin Prater Band has announced a bit of mid-season alteration in their lineup, motivated by the departure of guitarist Rick Bartley who is now touring with his brother, Shayne, as The Bartley Brothers. Now working with Kevin are the Burrows brothers

No one who follows bluegrass music closely needs to be told that bands come and go as the vagaries of fate and the music industry may dictate. Here's news of another such story. The Railroaders, a group of bluegrass veterans who

For a great many musicians and studio folks, Earthworks microphones are known primarily for their reference and choral applications. Recognized for their remarkable sonic accuracy and lack of tonal colorization, these somewhat odd-looking microphones, with their long cylindrical shape and small,

Here's another video of Flashback shot during their set at the Musicians Against Childhood Cancer festival in Ohio earlier this summer, and it shows another side of their musical personality. In addition to new material written in the band, they also look

Yesterday (8/10) The Gospel Music Association announced their nominees for the 2016 Dove Awards. The awards will be distributed on October 11 in Nashville's Allen Arena. As always, they have a category for bluegrass Gospel music, and the 2016 nominees for

The Susan Cohan Colon Cancer Foundation takes care of people. That’s what it does. And, that is what it did on July 30th during the Susie’s Cause 2nd Annual Bluegrass-Folk Festival at Oregon Ridge Park in Cockeyesville, Maryland. The venue could

Saburo and Toshio Watanabe celebrated their 45th anniversary hosting the Takarazuka festival in Sanda City, Japan this past weekend. The pair have run B.O.M. Service (Bluegrass and Old Time Music) in the nearby city of Hyogo since 1972, selling American and European bluegrass

The Cleverlys have dropped their latest video, a stylized theatrical reenactment of Loser, with a bluegrass twist. That's right... they've reworked Beck's rap/rock hit from 1994 for their upcoming Cash Crop EP, due August 12 from Average Joes Entertainment. It's a