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Thanks to Jason Lombard for sending along this gallery of all the zaniness and music at the 2013 Grand Targhee Bluegrass Festival in Wyoming earlier this month.  

In a move that may come as a surprise to some, the seven-piece string band Old Crow Medicine Show has been invited to become a cast member of the Grand Ole Opry. The invitation was extended on Friday August 1, by

It looks like it's time for another personnel change in Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. Corey Hensley has played his final show with the band, so we can expect an announcement from Doyle about a new bass player in the near future.

The Steep Canyon Rangers have released a sneak peek video from their upcoming Rounder album, Tell The Ones I Love. It gives a look of the guys at work in Levon Helm's Studio in February, along with a listen to the

Smithsonian Folkways has announced the release of the 30-track Classic Banjo (SFW 40209), a compilation that captures the great versatility of the banjo and its part in shaping American musical identity, including the instrument's vital role in the 1960s folk

A family that sings together, stays together. Isn't that what they say? Well that's how newlyweds Jonathan Maness and Wendy Crowe met and became close - through music. The pair sing and play together as WestWend, and were married earlier this month.

A number of bluegrass entertainers have spent the past few days celebrating their 2013 IBMA nominations, each according to their own style. Balsam Range has chosen to mark their five nominations by releasing an alternate ending to their recent Papertown video.   Funny

Here's a new video from alt-grassers Joy Killed Sorrow, the first from their current EP, Wide Awake, released earlier this summer on Signature Sounds. The song is Such Great Heights, originally written and recorded by pop group The Postal Service in

Mercury Classics has released The Impostor, a new project from Béla Fleck, including a pair of long-form Fleck compositions recorded with the Nashville Symphony and the Brooklyn Rider quartet. The Impostor is a concerto for banjo in three movements, performed with the symphony,

Leftover Salmon has a new single, Thornpipe, a driving banjo tune written and performed by Andy Thorn. It's the second in a set of four new tracks to be pre-released in collaboration with Colorado's Breckenridge Brewery. Free download codes are available in