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Often when I have been on the receiving end of interview questions, and particularly when the interviewers are from outside the bluegrass community, I’ll get a question about the growth of bluegrass music and the general level of interest in

Here's an interview with banjo man Bill Evans, conducted during IBMA week in Raleigh last month. We talked about his two recent recordings (In Good Company and Fine Times at Fletcher's House), and his upcoming Sonny Osborne Banjo Camp in

ATO Records has announced November 5th as the official release date for Divided & United, a two-disc set commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. This hearty thirty-two song collection features the best in American music. Drawing from country, bluegrass, and

Doug Davidson, who joined Laurel River Line just 8 months ago on resonator guitar, passed away yesterday after a short and tragic bout with cancer. He was 45 years old. Matt Scarborough, the band's mandolinist, tells us that Doug fell ill

Here's our Special Bluegrass Correspondent - who's actually under the weather today - with an abbreviated Bluegrass Weather Report for this weekend. He looks at the Edisto Bluegrass Festival in South Carolina and the First Quality Bluegrass Cruise departing from

Mandolinist Jesse Cobb has his first solo project, Solitude, set for an official release on November 12. And as the title implies, it is a solo project in the truest sense of the word, featuring Cobb, his mandolin and sometimes

Country pop chanteuse and fashion icon Taylor Swift has announced a special all-star collaboration for her performance during the 2013 Country Music Association Awards Show next month. During the show, to be televised on ABC November 6 at 8:00 p.m., she will offer a live

For anyone who may have scoffed at Noam Pikelny's recent suggestion that he has been cramming on J.D. Crowe's music of late, we offer further proof in the form of this video shot backstage during his current tour. Noam is out

Jamie Dailey once told me that every time he steps on stage, he feels he owes it to the fans to give the best performance he can. It doesn’t matter how he’s feeling, how many hours he just spent on

The recipients of the North Carolina Heritage Award for 2014 have been announced, and legendary fiddler Bobby Hicks is among the honorees. A native of Newton, NC, Bobby started on the fiddle as a young boy, and won his first fiddle competition