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While most bluegrass albums contain at least a few updated versions of old standards, there’s also some great new original music coming out these days. Milan Miller, the writer behind recent fan favorites Caney Fork River (Balsam Range) and Pretty

Today we have a pair of extra-Special Bluegrass Correspondents covering the scene at the 78th annual Old Fiddlers Convention in Galax, VA.  

We've written several times this year about Jim VanCleve, Mountain Heart fiddler and noted Nashville producer and session player, and his harrowing brush with dengue hemorrhagic fever in March. Fortunately for all concerned, Jim pulled through after his condition was

Rounder has released a new video in support of Della Mae's current CD, This World Oft Can Be. It's for the song Paper Prince, and features clever stop action animation created by Trent Freeman and Adrian Murray.  

What can you get for the flatpicker who has everything? Well... if the soon-to-be-concluded Kickstarter campaign for The Firefly Pick is successful, they could have a pick that lights up in the color of their choice with each stroke! The Firefly

The Deadly Gentlemen’s third release Roll Me, Tumble Me is out this summer from Rounder Records. The Boston-based group has a rootsy, folk influenced acoustic sound using traditional bluegrass instrumentation, but the music is harder to describe. More progressive than traditional... hipster

Jesse McReynolds, mandolin pioneer and bluegrass songwriter par excellence, is at home and wearing a heart monitor after being diagnosed recently with an irregular heartbeat. He still maintains a touring schedule, after celebrating his 84th birthday in July. His doctors have

Perhaps the biggest change for World of Bluegrass in Raleigh for 2013 is the city's scheduling of a major downtown street fair to coincide with the weekend Wide Open Bluegras Festival during IBMA week. Wide Open Bluegrass is a ticketed event,

The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the writers invited to showcase new songs during the 2013 World of Bluegrass Convention in Raleigh, NC this September. Participants for this annual event are chosen from among entires submitted to the organization each

On this day …. On August 4, 1932, Calvin Scott Stoneman was born in Galax, Virginia. He was the tenth child of 23 children of Ernest "Pop" and Hattie Frost Stoneman. Pop was a multi-instrumentalist who was seemingly good on every instrument